RUSTSEC-2026-0343 GHSA-ppcp-v39w-8jq2
Outgoing datagram buffer accounting can panic the sender in quinn-proto
- Severity
- 7.5 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- —
- No score published
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- —
- Not classified
- Fix
0.11.18- Upgrade quinn-proto to this version or later
Description
The limit on memory used to buffer outgoing datagrams, introduced in 0.11.17, subtracted an
evicted datagram's size from the buffered byte counter twice when Datagrams::send was called
with drop = true (as Connection::send_datagram in the quinn crate does) while the buffer was
full. Under sustained eviction the counter drifts below its true value: debug builds panic with an
integer underflow, while release builds wrap the counter, drain the whole queue, and then panic on
a desynchronization check in a later send call. In quinn, this panic occurs while the
connection lock is held, poisoning it and causing a double panic (and thus an abort) when the
connection is dropped.
This can be triggered without a malicious peer, by an application that sends a burst of datagrams
and then idles. It can also be triggered by a peer that keeps the connection alive with PING frames
while withholding acknowledgements, so that the sender's congestion window stays closed and the
outgoing queue never drains. Applications that use send_datagram_wait are not affected.
Only 0.11.17 is affected; the flaw was corrected in 0.11.18 by removing the redundant subtraction.
Thanks to @alexpyattaev for reporting and @vcarus for fixing this issue.
Affected versions
crates.io
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| quinn-proto | >= 0.11.17, < 0.11.18 |
0.11.18 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
quinn-proto crates.io → 0.11.18
- cargo
cargo update -p quinn-proto --precise 0.11.18
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
References
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| RUSTSEC-2026-0340 Peer minimum ACK delay can panic quinn-proto when ACK_FREQUENCY transmission is enabled | High | Also affects quinn-proto |
| RUSTSEC-2026-0338 Remote peer can panic quinn-proto with zero-length STREAM frames during unordered reads | Not rated yet | Also affects quinn-proto |
| RUSTSEC-2026-0342 Zero-length DATAGRAM frames bypass the receive buffer limit in quinn-proto | Not rated yet | Also affects quinn-proto |
| RUSTSEC-2026-0341 Stream reassembly memory-exhaustion guard in quinn-proto can be bypassed | High | Also affects quinn-proto |
| RUSTSEC-2026-0339 Unbounded growth of pending connection ID retirements in quinn-proto | Not rated yet | Also affects quinn-proto |
| GHSA-4w2j-m93h-cj5j Quinn: Remote memory exhaustion in quinn-proto from unbounded out-of-order stream reassembly | High | Also affects quinn-proto |
| GHSA-6xvm-j4wr-6v98 Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing | Medium | Also affects quinn-proto |
| GHSA-vr26-jcq5-fjj8 Denial of service in quinn-proto when using `Endpoint::retry()` | High | Also affects quinn-proto |
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