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Medium RHSA-2024:3875 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: nghttp2 security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Oct 15, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9.0 E4S rhel_e4s:9.0::baseos libnghttp2 0:1.43.0-5.el9_0.3
Red Hat · RHEL 9.0 E4S rhel_e4s:9.0::baseos libnghttp2-debuginfo 0:1.43.0-5.el9_0.3
Red Hat · RHEL 9.0 E4S rhel_e4s:9.0::baseos nghttp2 0:1.43.0-5.el9_0.3
Red Hat · RHEL 9.0 E4S rhel_e4s:9.0::baseos nghttp2-debuginfo 0:1.43.0-5.el9_0.3
Red Hat · RHEL 9.0 E4S rhel_e4s:9.0::baseos nghttp2-debugsource 0:1.43.0-5.el9_0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2024-28182 EPSS 82%

    Reading unbounded number of HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames to cause excessive CPU usage

    nghttp2 is an implementation of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 in C. The nghttp2 library prior to version 1.61.0 keeps reading the unbounded number of HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames even after a stream is reset to keep HPACK context in sync. This cause…

    nghttp2 nghttp2 rust nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268639
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_3875.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28182
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28182
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28182
  • article
    https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/security/advisories/GHSA-x6x3-gv8h-m57q
  • article
    https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood/
  • advisory
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421644