Apache HTTPD: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION denial of service (CVE-2016-8740)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
12/05/2016
07/25/2018
12/05/2016
10/15/2024
Description
The HTTP/2 protocol implementation (mod_http2) had an incomplete handling of the LimitRequestFields directive. This allowed an attacker to inject unlimited request headers into the server, leading to eventual memory exhaustion.
Solution(s)
- apache-httpd-upgrade-2_4_25
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