RHSA-2024:4937 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the varnish:6 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced 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 Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64

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