Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libwebsockets.src (opens in a new tab)
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- published4 Mar 2026
- disclosed3 Apr 2024
Introduced: 3 Apr 2024
CVE-2024-27316 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebsockets.src package and not the libwebsockets.src package as distributed by RHEL.
HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268277
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-27316
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/03/16
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QKKDVFWBKIHCC3WXNH3W75WWY4NW42OB/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MIUBKSCJGPJ6M2U63V6BKFDF725ODLG7/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240415-0013/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421644
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/04/4
- https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FO73U3SLBYFGIW2YKXOK7RI4D6DJSZ2B/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/03/16
- https://github.com/lockness-Ko/CVE-2024-27316