vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-41717: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2022
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection.

Solutions

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Title
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