ubuntu · CVE-2016-8740

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-05 19:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:12:45 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8740 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (apache2), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 5, released 1.

Description:

The mod_http2 module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 through 2.4.23, when the Protocols configuration includes h2 or h2c, does not restrict request-header length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted CONTINUATION frames in an HTTP/2 request.

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