CVE-2016-1544 Denial of service in nghttp2

What is CVE-2016-1544?

CVE-2016-1544 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 6 Feb 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

nghttp2 before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1544?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Nghttp2 Nghttp2.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1544?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-1544 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1544 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1544, GHSA-32wx-5655-89rw, openSUSE-SU-2024:10164-1.