ubuntu · CVE-2019-9516

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Priority: medium Published: 2019-08-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 23:16:08 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2019-9516 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nginx), 6 status rows across 6 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 3, ignored 1, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory.

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