| Name | CVE-2024-27316 |
| Description | HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5662-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1068412 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| apache2 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.4.10-10+deb8u25 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.4.25-3+deb9u13 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.4.25-3+deb9u15 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2.4.38-3+deb10u8 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 2.4.38-3+deb10u10 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.4.56-1~deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2.4.59-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.4.57-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2.4.59-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.4.58-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 2.4.59-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421644
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/04/4
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html#CVE-2024-27316
https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/0d73970ec161300a55b630f71bbf72b5c41f28b9
[jessie] - apache2 <not-affected> (http2 support introduced later)
Need for backport hard to backport https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/db462008f57927ce45b2f75645695325d48c30c9