Ill-formed headers may lead to unexpected behavior in Istio

Impact

Ill-formed headers sent to Envoy in certain configurations can lead to unexpected memory access resulting in undefined behavior or crashing.

You are at most risk if you have an Istio ingress Gateway exposed to external traffic.

Patches

1.12.8, 1.13.5, 1.14.1

Workarounds

No.

References

More details can be found in the Istio Security Bulletin

For more information

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