RHSA-2024:2700 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for varnish is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator. It stores web pages in memory so web servers don't have to create the same web page over and over again, giving the website a significant speed up.

Security Fix(es):

• varnish: HTTP/2 Broken Window Attack may result in denial of service (CVE-2024-30156)

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2271486 - CVE-2024-30156 varnish: HTTP/2 Broken Window Attack may result in denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2024-30156

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important