ALAS-2024-619


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-619
Advisory Release Date: 2024-05-09 17:16 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-05-15 19:35 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small. (CVE-2023-39326)


Affected Packages:

ecs-init


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update ecs-init --releasever 2023.4.20240513 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    ecs-init-1.80.0-1.amzn2023.aarch64

src:
    ecs-init-1.80.0-1.amzn2023.src

x86_64:
    ecs-init-1.80.0-1.amzn2023.x86_64