QID 357251

Date Published: 2024-02-20

QID 357251: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for nerdctl : ALAS2023-2024-529

A malicious http sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body.
A malicious http client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1gib) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request.
Chunk extensions are a little-used http feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding.
The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata.
A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred.
The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small. (
( CVE-2023-39326)



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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a securitybreach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS2023-2024-529 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.
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    ALAS2023-2024-529 amazon linux 2023 URL Logo alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-529.html