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CVE-2016-6580: DoS via Unlimited Stream Insertion

January 10, 2017 (updated January 27, 2017)

An HTTP/2 implementation built using the priority library could be targeted by a malicious peer by having that peer assign priority information for every possible HTTP/2 stream ID. The priority tree would happily continue to store the priority information for each stream, and would therefore allocate unbounded amounts of memory. Attempting to actually use a tree like this would also cause extremely high CPU usage to maintain the tree.

References

  • www.imperva.com/docs/Imperva_HII_HTTP2.pdf
  • github.com/python-hyper/priority/pull/23

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.2.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.2.0

Solution

Upgrade to latest or apply patches.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-399

Source file

pypi/priority/CVE-2016-6580.yml

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