UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34188

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34188
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2023/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34188.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34188
Upstream
Published
2023-06-23T20:15:00Z
Modified
2026-07-09T17:15:09.452988769Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond to any other requests.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / swupdate

Package

Name
swupdate
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swupdate?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2020.*
2020.11-2
2021.*
2021.04-1.1
2021.04-2
2021.04-2build1
2021.11-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libswupdate0.1",
            "binary_version": "2021.11-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lua-swupdate",
            "binary_version": "2021.11-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "swupdate",
            "binary_version": "2021.11-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2023/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34188.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / swupdate

Package

Name
swupdate
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swupdate?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2023.*
2023.05+dfsg-3
2023.05+dfsg-4
2023.05+dfsg-4build1
2023.05+dfsg-5
2023.12+dfsg-1
2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1
2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu4
2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libswupdate0.1",
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lua-swupdate",
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "swupdate",
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "swupdate-www",
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2023/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34188.json"