CVE-2026-44435 (GCVE-0-2026-44435)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-16 22:39
Modified
2026-07-17 13:02
CWE
  • CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit 937d0e9, an assertion failure is raised when the total number of valid handshake messages received over a CRYPTO stream of a single packet number space exceeds 32KB, causing a Denial of Service. This issue has been fixed by commit 937d0e9.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
h2o quicly Version: < 937d0e9
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