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nghttp2 GitHub releases:

This release fixes CVE-2019-9511 "Data Dribble" and CVE-2019-9513 "Resource Loop" vulnerability in nghttpx and nghttpd. Specially crafted HTTP/2 frames cause Denial of Service by consuming CPU time. Check out https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md for details. For nghttpx, additionally limiting inbound traffic by --read-rate and --read-burst options is quite effective against this kind of attack.

CVE-2019-9511 "Data Dribble": The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and stream priority to force the server to queue the data in 1-byte chunks. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.

CVE-2019-9513 "Ping Flood": The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.

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nghttp2 security advisories:

The overly large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frame payload causes denial of service.

The proof of concept attack involves a malicious client constructing a SETTINGS frame with a length of 14,400 bytes (2400 individual settings entries) over and over again. The attack causes the CPU to spike at 100%.

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