RHSA-2023:6286 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for Red Hat Data Grid is now available.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Data Grid is an in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution. It increases application response times and allows for dramatically improving performance while providing availability, reliability, and elastic scale.

Data Grid 7.3.11 replaces Data Grid 7.3.10 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. Find out more about Data Grid 7.3.11 in the Release Notes [3].

Security Fix(es):

• netty-codec-http2: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)
• undertow: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about the Rapid Reset flaw is available in the References section.

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

To install this update, do the following:

1. Download the Data Grid 7.3.11 server patch from the customer portal.
2. Back up your existing Data Grid installation. You should back up databases, configuration files, and so on.
3. Install the Data Grid 7.3.11 server patch. Refer to the 7.3.11 Release Notes for patching instructions.
4. Restart Data Grid to ensure the changes take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Data Grid Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2242803 - CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack)

CVEs

• CVE-2023-44487

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/softwareDetail.html?softwareId=70381&product=data.grid&version=7.3&downloadType=patches
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_data_grid/7.3/html-single/red_hat_data_grid_7.3_release_notes/index