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 [$] Continued attacks on HTTP/2


On April 3 security researcher Bartek Nowotarski
<a href="https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood-technical-details/" rel="nofollow">
published</a> the details of a new denial-of-service (DoS)
attack, called a "continuation flood", against many
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2
-capable web
servers. While the attack is not terribly complex, it affects many independent
implementations of the HTTP/2 protocol, even though multiple
similar vulnerabilities over the years have given implementers plenty of warning.


https://lwn.net/Articles/968600/