Bug 2498934 - CVE-2026-40898 syncthing: quic-go: Denial of Service via excessive memory allocation in HTTP/3 trailers [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-40898 syncthing: quic-go: Denial of Service via excessive memory all...
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Status: ON_QA
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: syncthing
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Fabio Valentini
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-40898
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Reported: 2026-07-10 08:12 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2026-09-12 02:00 UTC (History)
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Description Marian Rehak 2026-07-10 08:12:22 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 2026-09-11 22:49:41 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f4c039db2 (syncthing-2.1.3-1.el10_3) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.3.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f4c039db2

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-11 22:49:42 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2d0edad09d (syncthing-2.1.3-1.el10_2) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.2.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2d0edad09d

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-09-12 01:49:46 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2d0edad09d has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.2 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2d0edad09d

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

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-09-12 01:54:58 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f4c039db2 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.3 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f4c039db2

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

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-09-12 02:00:59 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f75fb5d146 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.4 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f75fb5d146

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


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