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F5 Networks: K98053339 (CVE-2019-9512): HTTP/2 Ping Flood vulnerability CVE-2019-9512

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F5 Networks: K98053339 (CVE-2019-9512): HTTP/2 Ping Flood vulnerability CVE-2019-9512

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/13/2019
Created
08/23/2019
Added
08/21/2019
Modified
12/08/2020

Description

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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