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USN-8591-1: AIOHTTP vulnerabilities

Sean Gilligan discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly limit memory usage when processing HTTP headers and trailers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-22815) It was discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly limit the size of its DNS cache. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-34513) Mingi Jung discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly sanitize the content_type parameter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject malicious HTTP headers, resulting in HTTP response splitting. (CVE-2026-34514) It was discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly limit memory usage when processing multipart headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-34516)

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