Use After Free Affecting facebook/proxygen package, versions [0.29.0,2017.4.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.36% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FACEBOOKPROXYGEN-2364718
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-11940  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade facebook/proxygen to version 2017.4.10.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. In the course of decompressing HPACK inside the HTTP2 protocol, an unexpected sequence of header table resize operations can place the header table into a corrupted state, leading to a use-after-free condition and undefined behavior. This issue affects Proxygen from v0.29.0 until v2017.04.03.00.

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CVSS Base Scores

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