GMS-2017-123: Denial of Service via malformed accept-encoding header

April 5, 2017

When hapi encounters a malformed accept-encoding header an uncaught exception is thrown. This may cause hapi to crash or to hang the client connection until the timeout period is reached.

References

github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/3466

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