Security Advisory

CVE-2019-9516

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-08-13 20:50:59
Last updated 2024-08-04 21:54:44
Assigner certcc
CVSS score 7.5
State PUBLISHED

Description

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory.