HTTP.sys Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2016-0150 is fixed in 4 products on 1 platform, first by KB3147458, released April 12, 2016. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in the HTTP 2.0 protocol stack (HTTP.sys) when HTTP.sys improperly parses specially crafted HTTP 2.0 requests. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could create a denial of service condition, causing the target system to become unresponsive.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP packet to a target system, causing the affected system to become nonresponsive.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how the Windows HTTP protocol stack handles HTTP 2.0 requests. Note that the denial of service vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights.</p>
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