PYSEC-2017-93

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2016-6580
Aliases
GHSA-h3q4-6j7f-r24c

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

PackageVersions
PyPI · priorityintroduced 0, fixed 1.2.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database