A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python HPACK library between v1.0.0 and v2.2.0 could be targeted for a denial of service attack, specifically a so-called "HPACK Bomb" attack. This attack occurs when an attacker inserts a header field that is exactly the size of the HPACK dynamic header table into the dynamic header table. The attacker can then send a header block that is simply repeated requests to expand that field in the dynamic table. This can lead to a gigantic compression ratio of 4,096 or better, meaning that 16kB of data can decompress to 64MB of data on the target machine.
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python hyper 0.4 |
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python hyper 0.6 |
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python hpack 1.0 |
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python hpack 2.0 |
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python hpack 2.1.1 |
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python hpack 2.0.1 |
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python hpack 2.2 |
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