Name: CVE-2015-8659: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-8659, CWE-119, CVSS 10, EPSS 0.02186

The idle stream handling in nghttp2 before 1.6.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, aka a heap-use-after-free bug.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 10
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Apple Ios	—	Upgrade to the latest version of Apple iOS	Apr 18, 2016	Jan 12, 2016
Apple Osx Httpprotocol	—	Upgrade macOS to the latest version	Mar 29, 2016	Jan 12, 2016
Debian	—	Upgrade nghttp2	Jul 30, 2024	Jan 12, 2016
Freebsd	—	Upgrade nghttp2	Dec 10, 2025	Jan 29, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-libs/nghttp2.	Oct 30, 2017	Jan 12, 2016
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Jan 12, 2016

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