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Panic Vulnerability in loona-hpack

Type: advisorySources: OSV

loona is an experimental, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 implementation in Rust on top of io-uring. `loona-hpack` suffers from the same vulnerability as the original `hpack` as documented in issue #11. All users who try to decode untrusted input using the Decoder are vulnerable to this exploit. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.4.3. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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CVE-2024-51502
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2 Nov 2026, 20:00 UTC · Revision 1

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Panic Vulnerability in loona-hpack

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Nov 2024, 22:42 UTC

loona is an experimental, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 implementation in Rust on top of io-uring. `loona-hpack` suffers from the same vulnerability as the original `hpack` as documented in issue #11. All users who try to decode untrusted input using the Decoder are vulnerable to this exploit. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.4.3. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2024-51502
Complete source record
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