ALAS-2024-1948


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1948
Advisory Release Date: 2024-09-26 00:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-10-03 10:50 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection. (CVE-2023-45288)

The various Is methods (IsPrivate, IsLoopback, etc) did not work as expected for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, returning false for addresses which would return true in their traditional IPv4 forms. (CVE-2024-24790)


Affected Packages:

amazon-ssm-agent


Issue Correction:
Run yum update amazon-ssm-agent to update your system.

New Packages:
src:
    amazon-ssm-agent-3.3.859.0-1.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    amazon-ssm-agent-3.3.859.0-1.amzn1.x86_64