UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8659

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8659
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8659.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8659
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:19Z
Published
2016-01-12T19:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:33:36.336225Z
Severity
  • 10.0 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The idle stream handling in nghttp2 before 1.6.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, aka a heap-use-after-free bug.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / nghttp2

Package

Name
nghttp2
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/nghttp2@1.7.1-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.7.1-1

Affected versions

0.*
0.6.7-1
1.*
1.3.4-2
1.4.0-1
1.4.0-2
1.5.0-2
1.6.0-1
1.7.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnghttp2-14",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnghttp2-14-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnghttp2-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnghttp2-doc",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2-client",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2-client-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2-proxy",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2-proxy-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2-server",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nghttp2-server-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.7.1-1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8659.json"