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CVE-2015-8659

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Apple Iphone Os: through 9.2.1
• macOS: through 10.11.3
• Apple tvOS: through 9.1
• Apple watchOS: through 2.1
• nghttp2: through 1.5.0

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175085.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175423.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/6
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353
• https://nghttp2.org/blog/2015/12/23/nghttp2-v1-6-0/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-06
• https://support.apple.com/HT206166

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