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CVE-2026-35469: SpdyStream: DOS on CRI

April 16, 2026 (updated April 24, 2026)

The SPDY/3 frame parser in spdystream does not validate attacker-controlled counts and lengths before allocating memory. A remote peer that can send SPDY frames to a service using spdystream can cause the process to allocate gigabytes of memory with a small number of malformed control frames, leading to an out-of-memory crash.

Three allocation paths in the receive side are affected:

  1. SETTINGS entry count – The SETTINGS frame reader reads a 32-bit numSettings from the payload and allocates a slice of that size without checking it against the declared frame length. An attacker can set numSettings to a value far exceeding the actual payload, triggering a large allocation before any setting data is read.

  2. Header count – parseHeaderValueBlock reads a 32-bit numHeaders from the decompressed header block and allocates an http.Header map of that size with no upper bound.

  3. Header field size – Individual header name and value lengths are read as 32-bit integers and used directly as allocation sizes with no validation.

Because SPDY header blocks are zlib-compressed, a small on-the-wire payload can decompress into attacker-controlled bytes that the parser interprets as 32-bit counts and lengths. A single crafted frame is enough to exhaust process memory.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-pc3f-x583-g7j2
  • github.com/moby/spdystream
  • github.com/moby/spdystream/releases/tag/v0.5.1
  • github.com/moby/spdystream/security/advisories/GHSA-pc3f-x583-g7j2
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35469

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.5.1

Fixed versions

  • 0.5.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.5.1 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

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

Source file

go/github.com/moby/spdystream/CVE-2026-35469.yml

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