# CVE-2026-55213: h2o: musl libc stack overflow (QPACK)

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-10 · Updated: 2026-07-13

## Affected

- h2o: version range not reported

## Description

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit edd7a120bfc4af11ac0cbebce2a43cc1f93f9af1, when h2o processes a QPACK instruction sent from the peer over HTTP/3, lib/http3/qpack.c might allocate an on-stack buffer as large as approximately 800 KB by calling alloca, which exceeds the default pthread stack size used by musl libc and causes the h2o server to crash with a segmentation fault while touching the guard page. This issue is fixed in commit edd7a120bfc4af11ac0cbebce2a43cc1f93f9af1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on h2o, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-432c-8xmj-frmq
- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/commit/edd7a120bfc4af11ac0cbebce2a43cc1f93f9af1

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