CVE-2018-11763
Published: 25 September 2018
In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 to 2.4.34, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 5.9
Notes
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | artful and older don't enable http2 in the build. see CVE-2018-1302 for a whole http2 backport requirement |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11763
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041713
- https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3783-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian