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ALPINE-CVE-2026-75804

Issue summary: OpenSSL QUIC stack does not enforce connection level flow control for streams. Remote peers may send more bytes as long as they fit wit...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Issue summary: OpenSSL QUIC stack does not enforce connection
level flow control for streams. Remote peers may send more bytes
as long as they fit within the stream flow control limits.

Impact summary: A malicious remote peer may exploit the lack of connection
flow control for streams to make the QUIC stack receive ~100MB of memory
instead of 768 KiB (default flow control window size).

CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Description: The local QUIC stack advertises two flow control limits
to its remote peer: stream flow control limit and connection flow
control limit. The remote peer must follow both limits when transmitting
stream data.

Whenever the local QUIC stack receives a stream frame, it validates
that the size of the received stream frame stays within flow control limits.
If either limit is exceeded (stream level or connection level), then
the QUIC stack must close the connection with a flow control error.

The vulnerable OpenSSL QUIC stack enforces the stream-level but not
the connection-level limit. To exploit the issue, three conditions must be met:

  • the remote peer opens several streams
  • each stream must stay within the stream-level flow control limit
  • there must be no zero-offset byte sent on any of the streams
    (to prevent the vulnerable QUIC stack from consuming data).
    By meeting the conditions above, the remote peer may make the local stack
    allocate 2 x MAX_STREAMS x (stream flow control limit) bytes
    of memory. MA…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.21 openssl
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.4.0"},{"fixed":"3.3.7-r2"}]}]

References

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