Eclipse Jetty HTTP/2 client can force the server to allocate a humongous byte buffer that may lead to OoM and subsequently the JVM to exit

Original Report In Eclipse Jetty versions 12.0.0 to 12.0.16 included, an HTTP/2 client can specify a very large value for the HTTP/2 settings parameter SETTINGSMAXHEADERLISTSIZE. The Jetty HTTP/2 server does not perform validation on this setting, and tries to allocate a ByteBuffer of the specifi...