RHSA-2024:5289 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the mod_auth_openidc:2.3 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

The mod_auth_openidc is an OpenID Connect authentication module for Apache HTTP Server. It enables an Apache HTTP Server to operate as an OpenID Connect Relying Party and/or OAuth 2.0 Resource Server.

Security Fix(es):

• mod_auth_openidc: DoS when using `OIDCSessionType client-cookie` and manipulating cookies (CVE-2024-24814)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2264092 - CVE-2024-24814 mod_auth_openidc: DoS when using `OIDCSessionType client-cookie` and manipulating cookies
• RHEL-36492 - Race condition in mod_auth_openidc filecache

CVEs

• CVE-2024-24814

References

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