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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-17189: Moderate: httpd:2.4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4751)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-17189: Moderate: httpd:2.4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4751)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/30/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/13/2022

Description

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, 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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-mod_md

References

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