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Description

Issue summary: When an OpenSSL QUIC server (Listener SSL object) processes
valid QUIC Initial packets for unknown destination connection IDs, it
can allocate and queue new incoming channels without enforcing any limit.

Impact summary: A remote peer that can make many Initial packets reach the
server listener faster than the application accepts connections, can cause the
memory allocated to store the per-channel state to grow without any limits,
potentially making the QUIC listener unavailable and causing Denial of Service.

CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Description: The function that handles inbound QUIC packets uses
Connection-Id from the packet header to find an existing connection
(QUIC channel). If no existing connection is found and the packet
type is INITIAL, the function treats the packet as a new connection. It
allocates a new channel object and inserts it into a queue where it
waits to be accepted by the local application with SSL_accept(3ossl).
The memory occupied by these initial channel objects may grow
without bounds if the application is not able to call SSL_accept()
frequently enough to serve these inbound connection requests.

The issue is present since OpenSSL 3.5 when the QUIC server implementation
was added.

The fix introduces a limit for pending connections. The default limit is set
to 256 pending connections (waiting to be accepted by the local application).
Applications may change the default by calling SSL_set_value_uint(3ossl).

FIPS impact: no
The FIPS module is not affected as the QUIC implementation is outside of
the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenSSL OpenSSL 4.0.0 – < 4.0.2, 3.6.0 – < 3.6.4, 3.5.0 – < 3.5.8 4.0.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 openssl 3.6.4-1 —
Debian 13 openssl 3.5.7-1~deb13u2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.4 USN-8678-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS openssl 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.15 USN-8678-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.29 USN-8678-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.8-1.el10_2 RHSA-2026:67154
RHEL 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.8-1.el9_8 RHSA-2026:67165
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 openssl +6 1:3.5.6-0.5.hum1 RHSA-2026:56097

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.8-1.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:67154
AlmaLinux 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.8-1.el9_8 ALSA-2026:67165

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 openssl 1:3.5.8-1.el10_2 RLSA-2026:67154
Rocky Linux 9 openssl 1:3.5.8-1.el9_8 RLSA-2026:67165
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 openssl-3 3.5.0-150700.5.50.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4039-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.10.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23609-1
SLES 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.10.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23609-1
SLE Micro 6.2 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.10.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23463-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed openssl-3 3.5.3-8.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11623-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.10.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21744-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 openssl 3.5.8-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 openssl 3.5.8-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 openssl 3.5.8-r0 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 openssl +5 1:3.5.7-2.amzn2023.0.2 ALAS2023-2026-2088

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling libssl3 +5 3.6.3-r5 —
Wolfi rolling openssl-4.0 +2 4.0.2-r0 —

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