Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7334-01 - An update for rh-varnish6-varnish is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: rh-varnish6-varnish security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:7334-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7334
Issue date: 2023-11-16
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2023-44487
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Summary:
An update for rh-varnish6-varnish is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.
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):
* HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)
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:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-44487
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242803