A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python HPACK library between v1.0.0 and v2.2.0 could be targeted for a denial of service attack, specifically a so-called "HPACK Bomb" attack. This attack occurs when an attacker inserts a header field that is exactly the size of the HPACK dynamic header table into the dynamic header table. The attacker can then send a header block that is simply repeated requests to expand that field in the dynamic table. This can lead to a gigantic compression ratio of 4,096 or better, meaning that 16kB of data can decompress to 64MB of data on the target machine.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92315 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://python-hyper.org/hpack/en/latest/security/CVE-2016-6581.html Mitigation Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-10T15:00:00

Updated: 2017-01-11T13:57:01

Reserved: 2016-08-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-6581

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.423

Modified: 2017-01-27T19:41:37.367


Link: CVE-2016-6581

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