#VU30377 Resource exhaustion in nghttp2 - CVE-2016-1544
Published: February 6, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30377
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1544
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
nghttp2
nghttp2
Software vendor:
nghttp2
nghttp2
Description
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to perform service disruption.
nghttp2 before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177308.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177666.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308461
- https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/compare/v1.7.0...v1.7.1
- https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-13