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Fedora 26 : mod_http2 (2018-63de5f3f6b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109417

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release includes the latest stable upstream release of mod_http2.
The changes since the last update are :

 - fixes a race condition where aborting streams triggers an unnecessary timeout.

 - accurate reporting of h2 data input/output per request via mod_logio. Fixes an issue where output sizes where counted n-times on reused slave connections. See [issue #158](https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/issues/158).

 - normalized connection prefix logging when trace2 is enabled for direct h2 connection detection.

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This update includes the latest upstream release of mod_http2, version 1.10.16. This includes a security fix (CVE-2018-1302) :

When an HTTP/2 stream was destroyed after being handled, mod_http2 could have written a NULL pointer potentially to an already freed memory.

The memory pools maintained by the server make this vulnerability hard to trigger in usual configurations, the reporter and the team could not reproduce it outside debug builds, so it is classified as low risk.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mod_http2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-63de5f3f6b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109417

File Name: fedora_2018-63de5f3f6b.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2018

Updated: 10/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1302

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mod_http2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1302