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High · 7.5 CVE-2016-6580 EUVD-2017-0099GHSA-h3q4-6j7f-r24cPYSEC-2017-93

priority vulnerable to denial of service

Published Jan 10, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python priority library prior to version 1.2.0 could be targeted by a malicious peer by having that peer assign priority information for every possible HTTP/2 stream ID. The priority tree would happily continue to store the priority information for each stream, and would therefore allocate unbounded amounts of memory. Attempting to actually use a tree like this would also cause extremely high CPU usage to maintain the tree.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI priority < 1.2.0 1.2.0 GHSA-h3q4-6j7f-r24c

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