CVE-2018-16844
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-07 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive CPU usage. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00035.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2018/000220.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105868Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042038Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3680Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3681Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16844Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3812-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4335Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
[UNKNOWN]nginx
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