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Asymmetric denial of service In curl

Description

An issue in curl’s QUIC UDP receive function allows a malicious HTTP/3 server to trigger a remote denial of service against a curl or libcurl client. Because the helper function discards zero-length UDP datagrams before counting them toward the per-call packet budget, a connected QUIC peer can continuously stream empty datagrams to indefinitely stall the client.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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