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Nginx Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2018-16843 - Vulnerability Database
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Nginx Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2018-16843

High
Reference: CVE-2018-16843
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16843
Title: Nginx Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
Overview:

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 39http239 option of the 39listen39 directive is used in a configuration file.