CVE-2026-55213 PUBLISHED

h2o: musl libc stack overflow (QPACK)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.06.2026 Published: 10.07.2026 Updated: 10.07.2026

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit edd7a120bfc4af11ac0cbebce2a43cc1f93f9af1, when h2o processes a QPACK instruction sent from the peer over HTTP/3, lib/http3/qpack.c might allocate an on-stack buffer as large as approximately 800 KB by calling alloca, which exceeds the default pthread stack size used by musl libc and causes the h2o server to crash with a segmentation fault while touching the guard page. This issue is fixed in commit edd7a120bfc4af11ac0cbebce2a43cc1f93f9af1.

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 < edd7a120bfc4af11ac0cbebce2a43cc1f93f9af1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE