SB2020060362 - Resource exhaustion in nodejs (Alpine package)
Published: June 3, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020060362
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11080)
The 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=b4b2a5e4822d8b01e62e3be2645d38bf78c806a6
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=7a14910d75ec00b49c3119f87badd6075099bbfa
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=198d3bb2cd989d9883c042a284d830fb32d5029b
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=d44213298dafed302fae115a488fbd10fcabb2a5
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0b95f9e7ef4f4ff23e543297818706a10536a19a
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=06fe05c65af5f0afffe1c231d82718d6cc9cb6d7
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=c9b014acf671adf0174919f3f74caca671717ee9
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=fe7417f5c2fd0ea8b513ce1f1eeebf14f20eb56d
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0069a8448e7c867901988a4f689e09128bad72c0