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GHSA-4v7x-pqxf-cx7m

net/http, x/net/http2: close connections when receiving too many headers

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-45288

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go net/http < 1.21.9 1.21.9
Go golang.org/x/net/http2 < 0.23.0 0.23.0
Go net/http >= 1.22.0-0, < 1.22.2 1.22.2
Go golang.org/x/net < 0.23.0 0.23.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection.

References

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