glsa-201612-06.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-06">
  <title>nghttp2: Heap-use-after-free</title>
  <synopsis>Nghttp2 is vulnerable to a heap-use-after-free flaw in idle stream
    handling code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nghttp2</product>
  <announced>2016-12-04</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-04</revised>
  <bug>569518</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/nghttp2" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.6.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression
      algorithm HPACK in C.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A heap-use-after-free vulnerability has been discovered in nghttp2.
      Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>The impact of the vulnerability is still unknown.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All nghttp2 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-libs/nghttp2-1.6.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8659">CVE-2015-8659</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-02-25T07:09:46Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-04T10:59:07Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>