CVE-2016-8740: The HTTP/2 protocol implementation (mod_http2) had an incomplete handling of the LimitRequestFields directive. This allowed an attacker to inject unlimited request headers into the server, leading to eventual memory exhaustion.

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Metadaten

  • Original (extern): Link oeffnen
  • Veroeffentlicht: 2016-12-04 00:00 UTC
  • Importiert: 2026-10-15 12:54 UTC
  • Quelle-ID: apache_httpd_sec
  • uid_hash: 0ebb1f11b32be790365a992784c679be346e173655df5af12111f7236a1ad6a1

Verknuepfte CVEs

CVE-ID Severity (Quelle) CVSS (Quelle) Severity (CVE.org) CVSS (CVE.org) EPSS EPSS-Pctl Veroeffentlicht (CVE.org)

CVE-2016-8740

2016-12-05

Quellen-Details

Bezeichnung Name Kategorie Tags Zielgruppe Sprache Feed-URL
Apache HTTP Server Security (httpd.org JSON)

apache_httpd_sec

vendor_advisory webserver, httpd - de https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities-httpd.json