Executive Summary

Summary
Title nghttp2: Heap-use-after-free
Informations
Name GLSA-201612-06 First vendor Publication 2016-12-04
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-12-04
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Nghttp2 is vulnerable to a heap-use-after-free flaw in idle stream handling code.

Background

Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C.

Description

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability has been discovered in nghttp2.
Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

The impact of the vulnerability is still unknown.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All nghttp2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/nghttp2-1.6.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-8659
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8659

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-06

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-06.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 1
Application 1
Os 158
Os 107
Os 46
Os 8

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-05 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-01 Name : The remote device is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : appletv_9_2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-22 Name : The remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : macosx_10_11_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-54f85ec6e8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-8e13ac5754.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-01 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_93eadedbc6a611e596d614dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-12-06 13:26:15
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-04 13:23:02
  • First insertion