CVE-2016-6580

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92311
• https://python-hyper.org/priority/en/latest/security/CVE-2016-6580.html

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92311
• https://python-hyper.org/priority/en/latest/security/CVE-2016-6580.html

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