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erlang-cowboy

Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang

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general
  • source: erlang-cowboy (main)
  • version: 2.18.0+dfsg-1
  • maintainer: Debian Erlang Packagers (archive) (DMD)
  • uploaders: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu [DMD] – Taku YASUI [DMD]
  • arch: all any
  • std-ver: 4.7.4
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • testing: 2.17.0+dfsg-1
  • unstable: 2.18.0+dfsg-1
versioned links
  • 2.17.0+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.18.0+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • erlang-cowboy
  • erlang-cowboy-doc
action needed
1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2026-65624: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ninenines cowboy allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust connection process memory over HTTP/1.1. The HTTP/1.1 handler in cowboy_http enforces the max_headers limit by counting the number of distinct header names in a map (maps:size(Headers)). When a request contains multiple header lines with the same name, the values are concatenated into a single ever-growing binary stored under that one map key (", " for regular headers, "; " for cookies), so the map size stays at one and the max_headers cap (default 100) is never reached. Because no accumulator bounds the total number of header lines or the total byte size of the header block (only per-line max_header_name_length and max_header_value_length apply), an unauthenticated client can send an arbitrary number of header lines with the same name and grow the connection process's binary memory to arbitrary size within the request window. The impact per connection is bounded by request_timeout (default 5 seconds, not reset by header data), and by max_heap_size when set (the offending connection process is killed once its heap grows past the limit). When max_heap_size is left at the default (unset), sustained abuse can drive the Erlang VM into out-of-memory conditions. This issue affects cowboy from 2.0.0-pre.4 before 2.18.0.
Created: 2026-07-29 Last update: 2026-07-29 17:00
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal
The packages that erlang-cowboy depends on which need a new maintainer are:
  • dblatex (#942402)
    • Build-Depends-Indep: dblatex
  • docbook-xsl (#802370)
    • Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-xsl
Created: 2026-06-20 Last update: 2026-07-30 01:01
testing migrations
  • excuses:
    • Migration status for erlang-cowboy (2.17.0+dfsg-1 to 2.18.0+dfsg-1): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
    • Issues preventing migration:
    • ∙ ∙ Lintian check waiting for test results on s390x, armhf, all, riscv64, amd64, loong64, i386, ppc64el, arm64 - info
    • ∙ ∙ Too young, only 1 of 5 days old
    • Additional info (not blocking):
    • ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/e/erlang-cowboy.html
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
    • Not considered
news
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  • [2026-07-29] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.18.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
  • [2026-07-24] erlang-cowboy 2.17.0+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-07-18] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.17.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
  • [2026-06-30] erlang-cowboy 2.16.1+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-06-25] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.16.1+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
  • [2026-06-25] erlang-cowboy 2.16.1+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-06-19] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.16.1+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
  • [2018-11-19] erlang-cowboy REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2018-06-12] erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2018-06-07] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-4 (source all amd64) into unstable (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2018-06-06] erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2018-06-01] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-3 (source all amd64) into unstable (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2016-08-09] erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2016-08-02] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-2 (source) into unstable (Balint Reczey)
  • [2015-05-05] erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
  • [2015-04-30] Accepted erlang-cowboy 2.0.0~pre.1+dfsg1-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Balint Reczey)
  • [2014-10-27] erlang-cowboy 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
  • [2014-10-16] Accepted erlang-cowboy 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Balint Reczey)
  • [2014-08-29] erlang-cowboy 0.10.0+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
  • [2014-08-23] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.10.0+dfsg1-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Balint Reczey)
  • [2013-11-07] erlang-cowboy 0.8.6+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2013-10-28] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.8.6+dfsg1-1 (source amd64 all) (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2013-10-27] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.8.6+dfsg-1 (source amd64 all) (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2013-07-27] erlang-cowboy 0.6.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2013-07-16] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.6.1-4 (source amd64) (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2013-07-16] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.6.1-3 (source amd64) (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2012-11-29] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.6.1-2 (source amd64) (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
  • [2012-09-30] Accepted erlang-cowboy 0.6.1-1 (source amd64) (Nobuhiro Iwamatsu)
bugs [bug history graph]
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