Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2098
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-21 19:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-29 19:47 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application Firewall. NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase. (CVE-2022-48279)
In ModSecurity before 2.9.7, FILES_TMP_CONTENT sometimes lacked the complete content. This can lead to a Web Application Firewall bypass. (CVE-2023-24021)
Affected Packages:
mod_security
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_security to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
mod_security-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
mod_security-mlogc-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
i686:
mod_security-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
mod_security-mlogc-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
src:
mod_security-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
mod_security-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
mod_security-mlogc-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.7-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64