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Fedora 23 : nghttp2-1.7.1-1.fc23 (2016-ac861a840e)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89593

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2016-1544: Out of memory in nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2_asio applications due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields:
https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected nghttp2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308461

https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1

http://www.nessus.org/u?6082e8a5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89593

File Name: fedora_2016-ac861a840e.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nghttp2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1544