Bug 1308461 (CVE-2016-1544) - CVE-2016-1544 nghttp2: out of memory error due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields
Summary: CVE-2016-1544 nghttp2: out of memory error due to unlimited incoming HTTP hea...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-1544
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1308463 1308467 1308612
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-15 09:48 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nghttp2 1.7.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:48:21 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-02-15 09:48:48 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in a way nghttp2 processes incoming packets.
Nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2_asio applications do not limit the
memory usage for the incoming HTTP header field. If peer sends
specially crafted HTTP/2 HEADERS frames and CONTINUATION frames, they
will crash with out of memory error.

Upstream report and fix:

https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-02-15 09:49:31 UTC 
Created nghttp2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1308463]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-02-15 09:53:11 UTC 
Created nghttp2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1308467]
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2016-02-15 15:38:58 UTC 
The fix seems to be spread across multiple commits.  The changes between 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 seem almost limited to this issue:

https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2/compare/v1.7.0...v1.7.1
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-02-17 03:49:24 UTC 
nghttp2-1.7.1-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-02-22 20:50:13 UTC 
nghttp2-1.7.1-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-02-29 20:56:23 UTC 
nghttp2-1.7.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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