A vulnerability was found in libsoup's HTTP/2 protocol implementation. The library fails to correctly release memory context blocks under specific stream termination conditions, such as when an HTTP/2 connection encounters window exhaustion or explicit stream resets. A remote, unauthenticated attacker acting as a malicious network peer can trick the connection engine into allocating stream states that are subsequently leaked during cleanup. Over a sustained period, this flaw allows the remote attacker to consume the system's heap allocations incrementally, triggering a denial of service (DoS) through an ultimate Out-of-Memory (OOM) application crash.
Exploitability
AV:NAC:HPR:NUI:NScope
S:UImpact
C:HI:NA:N5.9/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NOther