GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-4w2j-m93h-cj5j Quinn: Remote memory exhaustion in quinn-proto from unbounded out-of-order stream reassembly

HIGH Published 2026-07-24 Modified 2026-07-24 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
quinn-proto
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2026-07-24

Affected packages

• crates.io quinn-proto: >= 0.1.0, < 0.11.15 → fixed in 0.11.15

Description

Summary The `Assembler` component that assembles unordered stream fragments into consecutive chunks of the stream incurs some overhead for non-contiguous fragments. Readers that read from a `RecvStream` in order (through an `AsyncRead` impl for example) will be sensitive to peers that send fragments while leaving out early parts of the stream, and in particular, fragments with many gaps (because these cannot be defragmented). In such a scenario, the receiving connection suffers from high buffer overhead, enabling memory exhaustion.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References