Vulnerabilities fixed in Apache 2.4.59

Created on 2024-07-17 12:45 and updated on 2024-07-17 12:45.

Description

  • SECURITY: CVE-2024-27316: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames (cve.mitre.org) HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion. Credits: Bartek Nowotarski (https://nowotarski.info/)

  • SECURITY: CVE-2024-24795: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP Response Splitting in multiple modules (cve.mitre.org) HTTP Response splitting in multiple modules in Apache HTTP Server allows an attacker that can inject malicious response headers into backend applications to cause an HTTP desynchronization attack.

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Author

Alexandre Dulaunoy