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Apache HTTPD: Apache HTTP Server - HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames (CVE-2024-27316)

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Apache HTTPD: Apache HTTP Server - HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames (CVE-2024-27316)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/04/2024
Created
04/16/2024
Added
04/09/2024
Modified
10/15/2024

Description

The affected asset is vulnerable to this vulnerability ONLY if HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion. Review your web server configuration for validation.

Solution(s)

  • apache-httpd-upgrade-2_4_59

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