Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7090-01 - An update for libmicrohttpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: libmicrohttpd security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:7090-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7090
Issue date: 2023-11-14
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2023-27371
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Summary:
An update for libmicrohttpd 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:
GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application.
Security Fix(es):
* libmicrohttpd: remote DoS (CVE-2023-27371)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-27371
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.9_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174313