ALAS2-2020-1540


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1540
Advisory Release Date: 2020-10-22 18:33 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-10-22 22:34 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to infinite loop in process_connection() when parsing specially crafted HTTP requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP request to cause denial of service to openwsman server. (CVE-2019-3833)


Affected Packages:

openwsman


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 openwsman to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libwsman1-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    libwsman-devel-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    openwsman-client-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    openwsman-server-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    openwsman-python-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    openwsman-ruby-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    openwsman-perl-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64
    openwsman-debuginfo-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    libwsman1-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    libwsman-devel-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    openwsman-client-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    openwsman-server-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    openwsman-python-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    openwsman-ruby-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    openwsman-perl-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686
    openwsman-debuginfo-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.i686

src:
    openwsman-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    libwsman1-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    libwsman-devel-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    openwsman-client-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    openwsman-server-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    openwsman-python-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    openwsman-ruby-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    openwsman-perl-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64
    openwsman-debuginfo-2.6.3-7.git4391e5c.amzn2.x86_64