Denial of service vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

Beschreibung

An unspecified vulnerability was found in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 through 2.4.23. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via crafted continuation frames in a HTTP/2 request.

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Technical details

Vulnerability occurs in mod_http2 module, when the Protocols configuration (including h2/h2c) does not confine length of request header. Because of that a specially crafted request can allocate memory on the sever until limit is reached.

Ursprüngliche Informationshinweise

• Apache httpd 2.4 vulnerabilities

CVE Liste

• CVE-2016-8740
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