CVE-2023-44487: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

October 10, 2023 (updated October 13, 2023)

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/4
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/9
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44487

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