SB2018100324 - Ubuntu update for apache2
Published: October 3, 2018 Updated: October 30, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11763)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of large SETTINGS frames in HTTP/2 connections. A remote attacker can repeatedly send large SETTINGS frames within an established HTTP/2 connection and consume all available threads and CPU time.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Null pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1302)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper destruction of an HTTP/2 stream after being handled. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP/2 stream, write a NULL pointer value to an already freed memory space and cause the service to crash.
3) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1333)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtering of incoming data within "mod_http2" apache module. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected web server and trigger daemon crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.