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Change History

GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

GitHub, Inc. CWE-770

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Prior to version 0.42.0, an attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory sending a large number of `NEW_CONNECTION_ID` frames that retire old connection IDs. The receiver is supposed to respond to each retirement frame with a `RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID` frame. The attacker can prevent the receiver from sending out (the vast majority of) these `RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID` frames by collapsing the peers congestion window (by selectively acknowledgi

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/4a99b816ae3ab03ae5449d15aac45147c85ed47a [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/security/advisories/GHSA-c33x-xqrf-c478 [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://seemann.io/posts/2024-03-19-exploiting-quics-connection-id-management [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqXtYcZAtIA&t=3683s [No types assigned]