Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1104
Advisory Release Date: 2018-11-07 22:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-11-08 23:43 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
In Apache HTTP Server, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.(CVE-2018-11763)
Affected Packages:
mod_http2
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update mod_http2 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
mod_http2-1.11.1-1.amzn2.i686
mod_http2-debuginfo-1.11.1-1.amzn2.i686
src:
mod_http2-1.11.1-1.amzn2.src
x86_64:
mod_http2-1.11.1-1.amzn2.x86_64
mod_http2-debuginfo-1.11.1-1.amzn2.x86_64