A memory leak could occur when a remote peer abruptly closes the socket without sending a GOAWAY notification. Additionally, if an invalid header was detected by nghttp2, causing the connection to be terminated by the peer, the same leak was triggered. This flaw could lead to increased memory consumption and potential denial of service under certain conditions.
This vulnerability affects HTTP/2 Server users on Node.js v18.x, v20.x, v22.x and v23.x.
Weakness
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | nodejs:20-8100020250203134842.489197e6 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | nodejs:18-8100020250207121904.489197e6 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | nodejs:22-8100020250130144944.6d880403 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | nodejs:20-9050020250130114516.rhel9 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | nodejs:18-9050020250206154514.rhel9 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | nodejs:22-9050020250131131518.rhel9 | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | esm-apps/focal | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | esm-apps/jammy | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | esm-apps/noble | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
| Nodejs | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
- Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
- For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
- When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
- To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.