| Summary | Protocol::HTTP2 versions through 1.12 for Perl is vulnerable to a HTTP/2 Bomb. Protocol::HTTP2's inbound HPACK path has no header-list size limit, so a small HTTP/2 request can expand into large server memory (the "HTTP/2 bomb"). The headers_decode method materialises a full key+value copy per indexed reference with no running size check, and the stream_header_block_add method appends (since version 1.12) every CONTINUATION frame to the per-stream buffer unbounded. MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE (default 65536) is advertised in SETTINGS but never consulted on decode. It is absent from the decoder and from the :limits export tag. |
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| Publication Date | June 6, 2026, 7:16 p.m. |
| Registration Date | June 7, 2026, 4:13 a.m. |
| Last Update | June 6, 2026, 9:16 p.m. |