Resource management error - CVE-2019-9515

 

Resource management error - CVE-2019-9515

Published: August 20, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20337
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9515
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in HTTP/2 implementation when processing SETTINGS frames. A remote attacker can send a huge amount of  SETTINGS frames to the peer and consume excessive CPU and memory on the system.


Affected software

IBM Observability with Instana
IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
Red Hat OpenStack
Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power
IBM Process Mining
IBM Spectrum Protect Storage Agent
runc (Alpine package)
containerd (Alpine package)
h2o (Debian package)
h2o (Alpine package)
trafficserver (Debian package)
py3-twisted (Alpine package)
nodejs
Red Hat Software Collections
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Fuse
AMQ Broker
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Process Automation Manager (formerly JBoss BPM Suite)
Red Hat Single Sign-On
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
Fedora
BIG-IP LTM
Twisted Web

How to mitigate CVE-2019-9515

Install updates from vendor's website.

runc (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.0_rc10-r0
containerd (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.2.9-r0, 1.3.0-r0, 1.3.3-r0
h2o (Debian package) - update to 2.2.5+dfsg2-2+deb10u1
h2o (Alpine package) - update to 2.2.6-r0
Fuse - addressed in versions 6.3.14, 7.5.0, 7.6.0
AMQ Broker - addressed in versions 7.4.3, 7.6
Red Hat Process Automation Manager (formerly JBoss BPM Suite) - update to 7.8.0
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - update to 7.2.5
Red Hat Single Sign-On - update to 7.3.5
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager - update to 7.3.0.7
trafficserver (Debian package) - update to 8.0.2+ds-1+deb10u1
py3-twisted (Alpine package) - update to 20.3.0-r0
IBM Process Mining - update to 1.12.0.4
IBM Spectrum Protect Storage Agent - update to 8.1.19
nodejs - addressed in versions 10.16.3-1.fc29, 10.16.3-1.fc30, 10-2920190816104510.6c81f848, 10-3020190816104510.a5b0195c, 12-2920190821145457.6c81f848, 12-3020190821145457.a5b0195c
Twisted Web - update to 19.10.0

External References

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