Input validation error in Apache HTTP Server - CVE-2022-29404

 

Input validation error in Apache HTTP Server - CVE-2022-29404

Published: June 8, 2022 / Updated: April 21, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU64085
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29404
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing HTTP requests to a lua script that calls r:parsebody(0). A remote attacker can send a very large HTTP request to the affected web server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Apache HTTP Server
IBM HTTP Server
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
Oracle Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
QuTScloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
HPE Helion Openstack
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
QuTS hero
PowerScale OneFS
httpd24-httpd (Red Hat package)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages
apache2-debuginfo
apache2
apache2-doc
apache2-worker-debuginfo
apache2-worker
apache2-utils-debuginfo
apache2-utils
apache2-prefork-debuginfo
apache2-prefork
apache2-example-pages
apache2-debugsource
apache2-bin (Ubuntu package)
apache2 (Ubuntu package)
apache2-devel
mod_proxy_html
httpd-debuginfo
mod_ldap
mod_md
httpd-tools
httpd
mod_ssl
mod_session
httpd-debugsource
httpd-help
httpd-filesystem
httpd-devel
apache2-event-debuginfo
apache2-event
httpd (Red Hat package)
app-admin/apache-tools
www-servers/apache
IBM Security SiteProtector System
QNAP QTS
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Rational Build Forge
IBM Aspera Orchestrator
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
EMC ECS
Maximo Application Suite - IoT Component

How to mitigate CVE-2022-29404

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache HTTP Server - update to 2.4.54
httpd24-httpd (Red Hat package) - update to 2.4.34-23.el7.5
IBM Security SiteProtector System - update to 3.1.1.19
QNAP QTS - addressed in versions 4.5.4.2125 20220810, 5.0.0.2131 20220815
IBM Rational Build Forge - update to 8.0.0.23
apache2-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2 - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-doc - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-worker-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-worker - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-utils-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-utils - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-prefork-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-prefork - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-example-pages - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-debugsource - addressed in versions 2.4.23-29.91.1, 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-bin (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.24, 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.25, 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.12, 2.4.48-3.1ubuntu3.5, 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1, 2.4.71ubuntu4.22+esm6
apache2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.24, 2.4.29-1ubuntu4.25, 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.12, 2.4.48-3.1ubuntu3.5, 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1, 2.4.71ubuntu4.22+esm6
apache2-devel - addressed in versions 2.4.33-150000.3.69.1, 2.4.51-35.19.1, 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
mod_proxy_html - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd-debuginfo - update to 2.4.43-16
mod_ldap - update to 2.4.43-16
mod_md - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd-tools - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd - update to 2.4.43-16
mod_ssl - update to 2.4.43-16
mod_session - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd-debugsource - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd-help - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd-filesystem - update to 2.4.43-16
httpd-devel - update to 2.4.43-16
apache2-event-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
apache2-event - addressed in versions 2.4.51-150200.3.48.1, 2.4.51-150400.6.3.1, 2.4.66-150400.6.57.1
httpd (Red Hat package) - update to 2.4.53-7.el9
app-admin/apache-tools - update to 2.4.54
www-servers/apache - update to 2.4.54
httpd - addressed in versions 2.4.54-1.fc35, 2.4.54-3.fc36
httpd - update to 2.4.54-3
EMC ECS - update to 3.7.0.3
IBM Aspera Orchestrator - update to 4.0.1.2b9681
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 5.0.1, 6.1.0
Maximo Application Suite - IoT Component - addressed in versions 8.7.20, 8.8.16, 9.0.6
PowerScale OneFS - addressed in versions 9.1.0.28, 9.2.1.22, 9.4.0.13, 9.5.0.1

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