CVE-2019-9517

NameCVE-2019-9517
DescriptionSome HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker opens the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint; however, they leave the TCP window closed so the peer cannot actually write (many of) the bytes on the wire. The attacker then sends a stream of requests for a large response object. Depending on how the servers queue the responses, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4509-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
apache2 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.4.10-10+deb8u25fixed
stretch (security)2.4.25-3+deb9u13fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.4.25-3+deb9u15fixed
buster2.4.38-3+deb10u8fixed
buster (security)2.4.38-3+deb10u10fixed
bullseye2.4.56-1~deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)2.4.56-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm2.4.57-2fixed
sid, trixie2.4.58-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
apache2sourcewheezy(not affected)
apache2sourcejessie(not affected)
apache2sourcestretch2.4.25-3+deb9u8DSA-4509-1
apache2sourcebuster2.4.38-3+deb10u1DSA-4509-1
apache2source(unstable)2.4.41-1

Notes

[jessie] - apache2 <not-affected> (HTTP/2 support only available since version 2.4.17 and later)
Affects upstream versions 2.4.20 to 2.4.39
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html#CVE-2019-9517
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md
[wheezy] - apache2 <not-affected> (HTTP/2 support was first introduced in version 2.4.17)

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