[email protected] reports:
An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts
of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames.
Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS
and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's
headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the
excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker
to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header
data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected.
These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly
more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to
send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames
we will process before closing a connection.