How many CVEs have patched checkHeaderLimits?

1 published CVEs changed checkHeaderLimits in envoyproxy/envoy, in 4 distinct patches totalling 16 changed lines, between 2026 and 2026.

What is the latest CVE that changed checkHeaderLimits?

CVE-2026-73550 (Envoy: HTTP/2 Discarded Host Header 200 GB Header-Copy OOM in Envoy), published 2026-09-21, changed lines 1707 to 1725 of source/common/http/http2/codec_impl.cc.

How does checkHeaderLimits compare to the rest of envoyproxy/envoy?

envoyproxy/envoy has 44 CVEs with a located fix in total; 1 of them changed checkHeaderLimits.

What do the line numbers refer to?

Line numbers are in the fixed version of the file, as the upstream patch left it. A CVE whose fix was backported to several branches is listed once, with the lines from the upstream commit.

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checkHeaderLimits

Name: checkHeaderLimits in envoyproxy/envoy: CVE fixes
Creator: RadicalNotion.AI
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

source/common/http/http2/codec_impl.cc

Last patched September 21, 2026

1

CVEs

That changed this function

4

Distinct patches

Backports counted once

16

Lines changed

Added plus removed

2026

Years

By CVE publication date

Overview

checkHeaderLimits in envoyproxy/envoy was changed by 1 published CVE fixes in 2026, in 4 distinct patches that added or removed 16 lines in total.

envoyproxy/envoy has 44 CVEs with a located fix in total, so 2% of them touched this function.

CVEs that patched it

Every published CVE whose fix changed checkHeaderLimits, newest first, with the lines each fix touched.

Envoy: HTTP/2 Discarded Host Header 200 GB Header-Copy OOM in Envoy
CVE-2026-73550 · lines 1707–1725 · +10 −6
High · CVSS 7.5
EPSS 0.6%2026-09-21

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Common questions about CVE fixes to checkHeaderLimits.

How many CVEs have patched checkHeaderLimits?: 1 published CVEs changed checkHeaderLimits in envoyproxy/envoy, in 4 distinct patches totalling 16 changed lines, between 2026 and 2026.
What is the latest CVE that changed checkHeaderLimits?: CVE-2026-73550 (Envoy: HTTP/2 Discarded Host Header 200 GB Header-Copy OOM in Envoy), published 2026-09-21, changed lines 1707 to 1725 of source/common/http/http2/codec_impl.cc.
How does checkHeaderLimits compare to the rest of envoyproxy/envoy?: envoyproxy/envoy has 44 CVEs with a located fix in total; 1 of them changed checkHeaderLimits.
What do the line numbers refer to?: Line numbers are in the fixed version of the file, as the upstream patch left it. A CVE whose fix was backported to several branches is listed once, with the lines from the upstream commit.

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