Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6580

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-10 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:36:28
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.