Bug 2498932 - CVE-2026-40898 prometheus: quic-go: Denial of Service via excessive memory allocation in HTTP/3 trailers [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-40898 prometheus: quic-go: Denial of Service via excessive memory al...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: prometheus
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Mikel Olasagasti Uranga
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Blocks: CVE-2026-40898
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Reported: 2026-07-10 08:12 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2026-07-14 18:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: prometheus-3.13.1-1.fc44 prometheus-3.13.1-1.fc43
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Last Closed: 2026-07-14 18:02:34 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2026-07-10 08:12:05 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Prior to version 0.59.1, an attacker can cause excessive memory allocation in quic-go's HTTP/3 client and server implementations by sending a QPACK-encoded HEADERS frame that decodes into a large trailer field section with many unique field names and/or large values. The implementation builds an `http.Header` for the corresponding `http.Request` or `http.Response`, while only enforcing limits on the size of the QPACK-compressed HEADERS frame, not on the decoded field section. This can lead to memory exhaustion. This is very similar to CVE-2025-64702. The difference is that this issue uses HTTP trailers, rather than HTTP headers, as the attack vector. A misbehaving or malicious peer can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against quic-go's HTTP/3 servers or clients by triggering excessive memory allocation, potentially leading to crashes or resource exhaustion. This affects both servers and clients due to symmetric header construction. Version 0.59.1 enforces RFC 9114 decoded field section size limits for trailers as well. It incrementally decodes QPACK entries and checks the field section size after each entry, aborting the stream if an entry causes the limit to be exceeded.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-07-11 12:21:07 UTC
FEDORA-2026-6a44db4fa9 (prometheus-3.13.1-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6a44db4fa9

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-07-11 12:21:08 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e07fd81708 (prometheus-3.13.1-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e07fd81708

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-07-12 01:33:11 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e07fd81708 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-e07fd81708`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e07fd81708

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-07-12 01:51:22 UTC
FEDORA-2026-6a44db4fa9 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-6a44db4fa9`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6a44db4fa9

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-07-14 18:02:34 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e07fd81708 (prometheus-3.13.1-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-07-14 18:19:38 UTC
FEDORA-2026-6a44db4fa9 (prometheus-3.13.1-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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