vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8659: nghttp2: Heap-use-after-free

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 12, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-nghttp2
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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