Bug 1222480

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-22189: rke2: quic-go: memory exhaustion attack against QUIC's connection ID mechanism
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Camila Camargo de Matos <camila.matos>
Component: SecurityAssignee: Johannes Kastl <bugzilla_opensuse>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: camila.matos, security-team, smash_bz
Version: Current   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/400376/
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Bug Blocks: 1222461    

Description Camila Camargo de Matos 2024-04-08 14:33:48 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1222461 +++

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Prior to version 0.42.0, an attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory sending a large number of `NEW_CONNECTION_ID` frames that retire old connection IDs. The receiver is supposed to respond to each retirement frame with a `RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID` frame. The attacker can prevent the receiver from sending out (the vast majority of) these `RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID` frames by collapsing the peers congestion window (by selectively acknowledging received packets) and by manipulating the peer's RTT estimate. Version 0.42.0 contains a patch for the issue. No known workarounds are available.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-22189
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22189
https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/4a99b816ae3ab03ae5449d15aac45147c85ed47a
https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/security/advisories/GHSA-c33x-xqrf-c478
https://seemann.io/posts/2024-03-19-exploiting-quics-connection-id-management
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqXtYcZAtIA&t=3683s
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273513
Comment 1 Camila Camargo de Matos 2024-04-08 14:46:27 UTC
Go module quic-go is affected by CVE-2024-22189 and this module is embedded in openSUSE:Factory/rke2 (quic-go version 0.38.2).