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FreeBSD : h2o -- multiple HTTP/2 vulnerabilities (73b1e734-c74e-11e9-8052-0028f8d09152) (Ping Flood) (Reset Flood) (Settings Flood)

2019-08-2600:00:00
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Jonathon Loomey of Netflix reports :

HTTP/2 implementations do not robustly handle abnormal traffic and resource exhaustion

Recently, a series of DoS attack vulnerabilities have been reported on a broad range of HTTP/2 stacks. Among the vulnerabilities, H2O is exposed to the following :

  • CVE-2019-9512 ‘Ping Flood’: The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses.
    Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.

  • CVE-2019-9514 ‘Reset Flood’: The attacker opens a number of streams and sends an invalid request over each stream that should solicit a stream of RST_STREAM frames from the peer. Depending on how the peer queues the RST_STREAM frames, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.

  • CVE-2019-9515 ‘Settings Flood’: The attacker sends a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.

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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(128136);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/12/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-9512", "CVE-2019-9514", "CVE-2019-9515");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2019-0643");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : h2o -- multiple HTTP/2 vulnerabilities (73b1e734-c74e-11e9-8052-0028f8d09152) (Ping Flood) (Reset Flood) (Settings Flood)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"Jonathon Loomey of Netflix reports :

HTTP/2 implementations do not robustly handle abnormal traffic and
resource exhaustion

Recently, a series of DoS attack vulnerabilities have been reported on
a broad range of HTTP/2 stacks. Among the vulnerabilities, H2O is
exposed to the following :

- CVE-2019-9512 'Ping Flood': The attacker sends continual pings to an
HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses.
Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume
excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of
service.

- CVE-2019-9514 'Reset Flood': The attacker opens a number of streams
and sends an invalid request over each stream that should solicit a
stream of RST_STREAM frames from the peer. Depending on how the peer
queues the RST_STREAM frames, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or
both, potentially leading to a denial of service.

- CVE-2019-9515 'Settings Flood': The attacker sends a stream of
SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer
reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS
frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how
efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory,
or both, potentially leading to a denial of service."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://github.com/h2o/h2o/issues/2090"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/605641/"
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  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a9fac719"
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
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  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:h2o");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/08/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/08/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
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  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"h2o<2.2.6")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdh2op-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:h2o
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd