CVE-2026-44453 PUBLISHED

h2o is vulnerable to musl libc stack overflow

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 16.07.2026 Updated: 17.07.2026

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 6b5370d, h2o is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when calling alloca under certain conditions. When serving static files, h2o builds the file path on stack, by calling alloca. The maximum size of the memory allocated using alloca can be as huge as ~600KB, which exceeds the default pthread stack size used by musl libc (128KB). If the amount of memory allocated by alloca exceeds the stack size, the h2o server crashes with a segmentation fault, while it tries to touch the guard page. This issue has been fixed by commit 6b5370d.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor h2o
Product h2o
Versions
  • Version < 6b5370d is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE