Updated: 2024-11-24 05:38:43.182023
Description:
A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.
Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
Severity | Score | |
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CVSS Version 2.x | 0 | |
CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 5.3 |
OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
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AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | buildah | 1.29.1 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Needs Triage | 2025-04-23 18:15:34 | ||
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | golang | 1.19.13 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | In Testing | 2025-05-15 03:39:51 | ||
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | podman | 4.4.1 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Needs Triage | 2025-05-16 22:43:00 |