CVE-2016-6580 (GCVE-0-2016-6580)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:36
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Summary
A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python priority library prior to version 1.2.0 could be targeted by a malicious peer by having that peer assign priority information for every possible HTTP/2 stream ID. The priority tree would happily continue to store the priority information for each stream, and would therefore allocate unbounded amounts of memory. Attempting to actually use a tree like this would also cause extremely high CPU usage to maintain the tree.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2016-08-04 00:00
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