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HistoryOct 23, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2023-45802

2023-10-2300:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
126
http/2
memory leak
version 2.4.58

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.732 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.1%

When a HTTP/2 stream was reset (RST frame) by a client, there was a time
window were the request’s memory resources were not reclaimed immediately.
Instead, de-allocation was deferred to connection close. A client could
send new requests and resets, keeping the connection busy and open and
causing the memory footprint to keep on growing. On connection close, all
resources were reclaimed, but the process might run out of memory before
that. This was found by the reporter during testing of CVE-2023-44487
(HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Exploit) with their own test client. During “normal”
HTTP/2 use, the probability to hit this bug is very low. The kept memory
would not become noticeable before the connection closes or times out.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.58, which fixes the issue.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur backporting this to jammy and earlier will likely require backporting the whole 2.0.10 version of the http/2 module as it refactors how connections and streams are handled: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/9767274b884a110e9244f59f50bd31ff1cae2933
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchapache2< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchapache2< 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.15UNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchapache2< 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.7UNKNOWN
ubuntu23.04noarchapache2< 2.4.55-1ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchapache2< 2.4.57-2ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchapache2< 2.4.58-1ubuntu1UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.732 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.1%