Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-7790

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ninenines cowlib cowhttpte module allows Excessive Allocation. The chunked transfer-encoding parser in...

CVE-2026-7790

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CVE-2026-7790 Unbounded chunk-size hex digits in cowlib cause quadratic CPU and memory DoS

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ninenines cowlib cowhttpte module allows Excessive Allocation. The chunked transfer-encoding parser in cowhttpte accepts an unbounded number of hex digits in the chunk-size field. Each digit causes a bignum multiplication Len 16 + digit, so parsi...