CVE-2026-55367

Publication date 5 November 2026

Last updated 5 November 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 4212ce114506a073505fd389db16ad2ba4e582a0, a client could send an incomplete CONNECT-UDP Capsule with an excessively large declared length, causing H2O to keep buffering received bytes without a per-Capsule limit while waiting for the remainder. Deployments that enabled proxy.connect-udp and accepted CONNECT-UDP requests could exhaust server memory and lose availability. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 4212ce114506a073505fd389db16ad2ba4e582a0.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
h2o 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
dnsdist 26.10 stonking
Not affected
26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Notes


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Before dnsdist version 1.8.2-2, dnsdist used system h2o. Between 1.8.2-2 and 1.9.0, dnsdist vendored h2o. After 1.9.0, dnsdist switched from using h2o to nghttp2 and now uses system nghttp2. Also, before 1.4.0 dns-over-https support was not implemented.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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