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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201612-13">
+ <title>nghttp2: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>Nghttp2 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">nghttp2</product>
+ <announced>2016-12-05</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2016-12-05</revised>
+ <bug>574780</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-libs/nghttp2" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.7.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression
+ algorithm HPACK in C.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2_asio applications do not limit the
+ memory usage for the incoming HTTP header field. If a peer sends a
+ specially crafted HTTP/2 HEADERS frame and CONTINUATION frame, they will
+ crash with an out of memory error.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.</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/nghttp2-1.7.1"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1544">CVE-2016-1544</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-22T13:39:02Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-05T01:23:37Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>