HIGH7.5
GHSA-x7vr-c387-8w57
Integer Overflow/Infinite Loop in the http crate
Details
HeaderMap::reserve() used usize::next_power_of_two() to calculate the increased capacity. However, next_power_of_two() silently overflows to 0 if given a sufficiently large number in release mode.
If the map was not empty when the overflow happens, the library will invoke self.grow(0) and start infinite probing. This allows an attacker who controls the argument to reserve() to cause a potential denial of service (DoS).
The flaw was corrected in 0.1.20 release of http crate.
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Affected packages
crates.io/http
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 0.1.20Upgrade http to 0.1.20 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).