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HTTP/2’s speed abused to slow webserver performance in DoS attack
Security researchers are warning of an issue with the default HTTP/2 configuration used by major web servers which reportedly survived more than a decade of human review before showing up in Codex-assisted analysis.
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Security researchers are warning of an issue with the default HTTP/2 configuration used by major web servers which reportedly survived more than a decade of human review before showing up in Codex-assisted analysis. A flaw in the handling of the HTTP/2 protocol made a denial-of-service (DoS) attack possible on web servers including nginx, Apache HTTP server, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare’s Pingora, according to security consultancy Calif.
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