DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55951

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Source

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-55951

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55951.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55951

Upstream

CVE-2026-55951

Published

2026-09-01T15:17:20Z

Modified

2026-09-17T16:00:07Z

Severity

8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

The Erlang/OTP httpc HTTP client does not enforce a limit on the total size of response headers received from a server. The max_header_size option defaults to nolimit, and httpc_response:parse_headers/6 accumulates every header into a list before the length check runs (which only fires after the terminating CRLF CRLF is received). A malicious or compromised HTTP server can send an arbitrarily large number of headers, or headers with very large values, causing the client process to allocate unbounded memory until the system runs out of memory or the BEAM VM crashes. A proof-of-concept server sending 100,000 headers of roughly 4000 bytes each caused the client VM to allocate over 13 GB of memory in under 30 seconds. Any application using httpc:request/4,5 to connect to untrusted servers is affected. No authentication is required: any server the client connects to (including via a redirect or man-in-the-middle) can trigger the exhaustion. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-55951

Affected packages

Debian:12 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:25.*

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u2

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u3

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u4

1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-2

1:25.3.2.11+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-2

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-3

1:26.*

1:26.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:26.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:26.0+dfsg-1

1:26.0.1+dfsg-1

1:26.0.2+dfsg-1

1:26.1.2+dfsg-1

1:26.2.1+dfsg-1

1:26.2.4+dfsg-1

1:27.*

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:27.0+dfsg-1

1:27.0.1+dfsg-1

1:27.0.1+dfsg-2

1:27.0.1+dfsg-3

1:27.1.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2+dfsg-2

1:27.2+dfsg-3~exp1

1:27.2.1+dfsg-1

1:27.2.1+dfsg-2

1:27.2.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2.3+dfsg-1

1:27.2.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.2+dfsg-1

1:27.3.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7

1:27.3.4.12+dfsg-1

1:28.*

1:28.0+dfsg-1

1:28.0.1+dfsg-1

1:28.0.2+dfsg-1

1:28.0.4+dfsg-1

1:28.1.1+dfsg-1

1:28.2+dfsg-1

1:28.3+dfsg-1

1:28.3.1+dfsg-1

1:29.*

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:29.0+dfsg-1

1:29.0+dfsg-2

1:29.0.1+dfsg-1

1:29.0.2+dfsg-1

1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55951.json"

Debian:13 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:27.*

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u1

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u2

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u3

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7

1:27.3.4.12+dfsg-1

1:28.*

1:28.0+dfsg-1

1:28.0.1+dfsg-1

1:28.0.2+dfsg-1

1:28.0.4+dfsg-1

1:28.1.1+dfsg-1

1:28.2+dfsg-1

1:28.3+dfsg-1

1:28.3.1+dfsg-1

1:29.*

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:29.0+dfsg-1

1:29.0+dfsg-2

1:29.0.1+dfsg-1

1:29.0.2+dfsg-1

1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55951.json"

Debian:14 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Affected versions

1:27.*

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7

1:27.3.4.12+dfsg-1

1:28.*

1:28.0+dfsg-1

1:28.0.1+dfsg-1

1:28.0.2+dfsg-1

1:28.0.4+dfsg-1

1:28.1.1+dfsg-1

1:28.2+dfsg-1

1:28.3+dfsg-1

1:28.3.1+dfsg-1

1:29.*

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:29.0+dfsg-1

1:29.0+dfsg-2

1:29.0.1+dfsg-1

1:29.0.2+dfsg-1

1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55951.json"