RHSA-2023:5837 — Security Advisory

An update for nghttp2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended 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.

nghttp2 contains the Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 (HTTP/2) client, server, and proxy programs as well as a library implementing the HTTP/2 protocol in C.

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.