Name: CVE-2016-1544: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-02-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-1544, CWE-400, CVSS 3.3, EPSS 0.00886

nghttp2 before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 3.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade nghttp2	Jul 30, 2024	Feb 6, 2020
Freebsd	—	Upgrade nghttp2	Dec 10, 2025	Feb 13, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-libs/nghttp2.	Oct 30, 2017	Dec 5, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade libnghttp2-14Upgrade libnghttp2-develUpgrade libnghttp2_asio1Upgrade libnghttp2_asio-develUpgrade libnghttp2-14-32bit	Mar 9, 2016	Mar 7, 2016
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Feb 6, 2020

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CVSS Details

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