Oct. 23, 2023, 7:15 a.m. |

National Vulnerability Database web.nvd.nist.gov

When a HTTP/2 stream was reset (RST frame) by a client, there was a time window were the request's memory resources were not reclaimed immediately. Instead, de-allocation was deferred to connection close. A client could send new requests and resets, keeping the connection busy and open and causing the memory footprint to keep on growing. On connection close, all resources were reclaimed, but the process might run out of memory before that.

This was found by the reporter during testing …

client cve fedora http memory request requests reset resources rst send stream window

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