google / google/bumble

h2 servers vulnerable to degradation of service with CONTINUATION Flood

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Description

An attacker can send a flood of CONTINUATION frames, causing h2 to process them indefinitely. This results in an increase in CPU usage.

update to 0.3.26

Tokio task budget helps prevent this from a complete denial-of-service, as the server can still respond to legitimate requests, albeit with increased latency.

More details at https://seanmonstar.com/blog/hyper-http2-continuation-flood/.

Patches available for 0.4.x and 0.3.x versions.

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