USN-7469-1: Apache Traffic Server vulnerability

28 April 2025

Apache Traffic Server could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

  • trafficserver - fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 caching proxy

Details

It was discovered that Apache Traffic Server exhibited poor server
resource management in its HTTP/2 protocol. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause Apache Traffic Server to crash, resulting in
a denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

After a standard system update you need to restart Apache Traffic Server
to make all the necessary changes.

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