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add a case of massive HEADERS at startup in the section of DoS Considerations #343

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shigeki opened this issue Jan 16, 2014 · 2 comments
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shigeki commented Jan 16, 2014

An initial value of SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS is no limit and a server can receive massive HEADERS from a malicious client before synchronization of the first SETTINGS.

These requests are legitimate but it is a risk of denial of service attack and need to be described in the security section.

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mnot commented Jan 24, 2014

Discussed in Zurich; add a sentence or two to DoS Considerations along these lines.

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While settings changes are outstanding, there are things that a peer might be able to do that is not provably bad and can therefore be exploited to generate excessive work.

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