CVE-2016-1544 (GCVE-0-2016-1544)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-06 14:20 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
nghttp2 before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).
Severity
CWE
- Other
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308461 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/compare/v1.7.0… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-13 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
Date Public
2016-02-15 00:00
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