Bug 1866564 (CVE-2020-11993)

Summary: CVE-2020-11993 httpd: mod_http2 concurrent pool usage
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: aakhtar, bnater, csutherl, gandavar, gzaronik, hhorak, jclere, jdoyle, jlyle, jorton, jwon, krathod, lgao, luhliari, mbabacek, mturk, myarboro, pjindal, pslavice, rsvoboda, security-response-team, weli, yozone
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: httpd 2.4.44 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A flaw was found in Apache httpd in versions 2.4.20 to 2.4.43. Logging using the wrong pool by mod_http2 at debug/trace log level may lead to potential crashes and denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Bug Depends On: 1868149, 1869077, 1869078    
Bug Blocks: 1866566    

Description Pedro Sampaio 2020-08-05 22:13:16 UTC
A flaw was found in httpd before version 2.4.46. Logging using the wrong pool by mod_http2 at debug/trace log level may lead to potential crashes and denial of service.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/commit/89773a4f98ee9a9fb402470e04b6f4044faa7fdf

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2020-08-05 22:13:21 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Apache project

Comment 3 Ted Jongseok Won 2020-08-06 00:16:53 UTC
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:
 * Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.

Comment 5 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-08-11 19:46:56 UTC
Created httpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1868149]

Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-08-16 10:42:17 UTC
External References:

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html#CVE-2020-11993

Comment 10 Eric Christensen 2020-09-08 18:35:58 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 do not ship the vulnerable version of httpd and, thus, are not affected.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-10-28 15:49:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2020:4383 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4383

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2020-10-28 16:01:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7
  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2020:4384 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4384

Comment 15 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-10-28 20:21:31 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-11993

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:15:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:1809 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1809