CVE-2018-17189: mod_http2, DoS via slow, unneeded request bodies
Severity: Low
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
httpd 2.4.17 to 2.4.37
Description:
By sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain
resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily
occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data.
This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections in
Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.37 and prior.
Mitigation:
All httpd users deploying mod_http2 should upgrade to 2.4.38 or later.
Credit:
The issue was discovered by Gal Goldshtein of F5 Networks.
References:
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
Severity: Low
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
httpd 2.4.17 to 2.4.37
Description:
By sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain
resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily
occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data.
This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections in
Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.37 and prior.
Mitigation:
All httpd users deploying mod_http2 should upgrade to 2.4.38 or later.
Credit:
The issue was discovered by Gal Goldshtein of F5 Networks.
References:
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html