Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU28538
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11080
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames. A remote attacker can trigger high CPU load by sending large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationUpdate the affected package nghttp2 to the latest version.
Vulnerable software versionsSUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP: 15-SP1 - 15-SP3
SUSE Manager Proxy: 4.0
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server: 4.0
SUSE Manager Server: 4.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing: 15-ESPOS - 15-SP1-LTSS
SUSE Enterprise Storage: 6
SUSE CaaS Platform: 4.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 15-LTSS - 15-SP1-LTSS
libnghttp2-14-32bit-debuginfo: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2-14-32bit: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
nghttp2-debugsource: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
nghttp2-debuginfo: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2_asio1-debuginfo: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2_asio1: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2_asio-devel: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2-devel: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2-14-debuginfo: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
libnghttp2-14: before 1.40.0-3.11.1
External linkshttp://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20210931-1/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.