SB2024082836 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM AIX
Published: August 28, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2398)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when sending HTTP/2 server push responses with an overly large number of headers. A remote attacker can send PUSH_PROMISE frames with an excessive amount of headers to the application, trigger memory leak and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Improper validation of certificate with host mismatch (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2466)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to libcurl does not check the server certificate of TLS connections done to a host specified as an IP address, when built to use mbedTLS. A remote attacker force the application to completely skip the certificate check and perform MitM attack.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2004)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when a protocol selection parameter option disables all protocols without adding any. As a result, the default set of protocols would remain in the allowed set due to an error in the logic for removing protocols.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.