[robobun]

Problem

• node:quic hands a received HTTP/3 field that holds CR or LF to onheaders, oninfo, ontrailers and stream.headers: headers["x-a"] === "v\r\ninjected: 1". Node v26.3.0 does not deliver such a field.
• The decode hook nq_hsi_process_header (packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c) refused NUL only. A fuzzer found this. No user reported it.

Fix

• The hook leaves a regular field out when its name or value holds CR or LF. The rest is delivered, and the field does not count against maxHeaderPairs or maxHeaderLength.
• Node v26.3.0 does the same, run here against an --experimental-quic build (Notes): nghttp3 returns NGHTTP3_ERR_REMOVE_HTTP_HEADER.
• Verified: test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts (7 tests that fail on main), serve-http3, fetch-http3-client, the 235 ported test-quic-*.mjs.
• Self-reviewed: 33 concerns raised, 25 addressed, 6 belong to the follow-up, 2 not taken (Notes).

Background

• lsquic calls the hook once for each decoded field, and a non-zero return closes the whole connection.
• Question for a maintainer: leave the field out, as Node does, or fail the message, as Bun's node:http2, Bun.serve and fetch do for the same bytes?
• Pseudo-headers are not in this PR on purpose: Node destroys the session there, and that follow-up needs node:quic: capture the handshake while the conn is alive, set the application at session creation #44533 and a decision on the level (Notes).

Downsides

• A pseudo-header with CR or LF is still delivered, as on main.
• A regular field costs one more memchr pass: in the hook a 10-field request goes from 2,767 to 3,115 instructions, a 4-field request from 1,130 to 1,084 (x64 glibc only).
• A peer that got such a field delivered before now finds it absent.

Notes

Repro. A node:quic server and client on loopback. The client sends "x-a": "v\r\ninjected: 1", and the server answers with the same value in a 103 block, a 200 block and trailers. On main and on 1.4.2 every callback gets the value. With this PR the field is absent and the other fields arrive.

Node v26.3.0, run. Built from the release tarball with ./configure --experimental-quic (bundled nghttp3 1.15.0, ngtcp2 1.22.1) and started with node --experimental-quic. The same two public-API scripts ran under Node and under this PR.

• Request with x-bad: "a\r\nb: c", Node to Node: the server's onheaders gets {":method":"POST",":path":"/",":scheme":"https",":authority":"localhost","x-ok":"1"} and answers 200. Every closed fulfils. The result is the same with this PR as the client, as the server, and as both.
• Response with x-bad in a 103 block, a 200 block and trailers: the client gets oninfo {":status":"103","x-ok":"info"}, onheaders {":status":"200","x-ok":"response"} and ontrailers {}, in all three pairings.
• A name with CR LF (x-a\r\nx-b, sent by this PR's raw sender): both leave the field out and answer 200. A value with a tab: both deliver it.
• :path: "/a\r\nb", Node to Node: the server's onheaders is not called. Both sessions are destroyed with ERR_QUIC_TRANSPORT_ERROR 0x1: QUIC transport error INTERNAL_ERROR (1) on session.onerror, stream.closed and session.closed. A new session works.

Where this PR is not Node, on purpose.

• A pseudo-header with CR or LF is delivered, as on main. Without its :path a request is a different request, so it cannot be left out, and the hook can only fail the whole connection.
• te: "a\r\nb" and a name with an uppercase letter and CR: Node destroys the session, because nghttp3 has its own rule for those names. This PR leaves the field out. One test row pins te.
• The other bytes nghttp3 removes (the other control bytes, DEL, SP or HTAB at either end of a value) are still delivered. A value with 0x01: Node leaves the field out, this PR delivers it.
• NUL is as on main: the hook returns -1 and lsquic closes the connection. nghttp3 leaves a regular field with NUL out. No sender in bun can put a NUL in an HTTP/3 field, so that row has no test and this PR does not move it.
• lsquic checks content-length and applies priority before the hook runs, so the hook does not see the first and cannot undo the second.
• sendHeaders() still sends CR and LF, as Node does. A send-side refusal is stricter than Node and needs its own decision.

The pseudo-header follow-up and its question. A malformed message can fail at three levels.

• One stream: RESET_STREAM and STOP_SENDING with H3_MESSAGE_ERROR (0x10e). RFC 9114 4.1.2 names this, nghttp3 did it up to 1.10.1, and main does it for :status in a request. Built and tested on the branch robobun/62b94b71/quic-h3-pseudo-header-stream-reset (+113 production lines, a flag on the header set that claim_header_sets in stream.rs reads). The idea of that flag is from the first commit of node:quic(h3): scope malformed-message failures to one stream instead of CONNECTION_CLOSE #35762. A review of that branch reported two gaps that main's :status arm shares: the side that resets gets no wake for a parked reader, and its write side stays open. I did not verify them.
• The connection, from the hook: return -1, about 10 lines. Bun.serve HTTP/3 does this for the same bytes, and this hook does it for NUL. RFC 9114 section 8 allows it.
• Node's result: the session is destroyed with transport error 1.
• A connection close that arrives before opened ends a server process today: uncaught ERR_INVALID_STATE: The negotiated QUIC application protocol does not support headers. That is not specific to this hook. A stock client reaches it on main with content-length: abc (2 of 3 runs here). node:quic: capture the handshake while the conn is alive, set the application at session creation #44533 fixes it, so the connection-level follow-up waits for node:quic: capture the handshake while the conn is alive, set the application at session creation #44533.

Order against other open PRs.

• node:quic: capture the handshake while the conn is alive, set the application at session creation #44533: merges cleanly with this branch (git merge-tree).
• node:quic: remove unsafe from the endpoint, session, stream and TLS code #40220 rewrites lib.rs and stream.rs. This PR does not touch either file.
• node:quic: reject RFC 9114 malformed H3 field sections with H3_MESSAGE_ERROR #35732: its row x-crlf: a\r\nb expects RESET_STREAM 0x10e. With this PR that field is left out. One of the two must change. It also holds the per-message rules that this PR does not port.
• node:quic(h3): scope malformed-message failures to one stream instead of CONNECTION_CLOSE #35762: its lsquic patch no longer applies. Its flag idea lives on the branch named above.

Measurements (x64 glibc. Instructions are user-mode counts from a perf_event_open counter over 20,000 blocks, three equal runs, with the shim compiled by the release command line and the ThinLTO backend. One block is: create the header set, one hook call for each field, read, free):

• 4-field request: 1,130 on main, 1,084 with this PR. :status 200: 581, 574. A pseudo-header needs one memchr where main ran two.
• 10-field browser-like request (4 pseudo-headers, 6 regular fields, 499 bytes): 2,767, 3,115. 130 small regular fields: 24,962, 29,311, which is +33 for each field.
• The cost does not depend on the bytes. The first commit of this PR had a prefilter loop with a slow arm (3,583 for the 10-field block). The third commit replaced it.
• Release binary, main against this PR on the same base: nq_hsi_process_header 498 to 567 B. .text 81,071,045 to 81,071,045. size text +572 B, the built-in JS of the raw sender. Stripped file 106,501,896 to 106,501,896 bytes.
• Surface: +0 host functions, +0 C exports, +0 properties on QuicStream.prototype, +1 function on the internal quic module, +1 bun:internal-for-testing export.

Tests.

• On a release build of main the file loads, the 7 older tests pass and the 7 tests of the new block fail: six on their assertion, and the name test because main has no raw sender. None hangs.
• The tests wait for stream.closed and client.close(), not for a callback, so a block that does not arrive fails the assertion in about a second.
• Rows: CR LF, LF and CR in a value in a request, request trailers, a 103 block, a 200 block, stream.headers and response trailers. CR or LF as the first, the last and the only byte of a name or value. A 3 KB value that ends in LF next to a clean 3 KB value. A tab. te. A pseudo-header (still delivered). maxHeaderPairs and maxHeaderLength accounting.
• Each clause of the hook was changed in turn and the tests run again. All 10 mutants fail a test: pseudo-headers left out, CR not checked, LF not checked, the scan over the value only, over the name only, one byte short, one byte late, cut at 8 bytes, a left-out field counted as a pair, its bytes counted.
• Debug (ASAN) build: quic-stream.test.ts 14 pass, quic-endpoint 7, quic-sni 8, serve-http3 79, fetch-http3-client 67, fetch-http2-adversarial 30. Ported test-quic-*.mjs: 232 of 235 pass. The other 3 fail the same way on main: 2 need node:stream/iter, 1 has a 10 ms RTT bound that only the debug build misses. The new block passed 10 of 10 repeated debug runs and 40 of 40 release runs.
• The raw sender is a closure from the QuicStream static block. Only the internal module exports it, and bun:internal-for-testing passes it on. sendHeaders() refuses a name that is not a token, so the name rows need it.

Self-review. Two rounds. Addressed in this PR: the test latches, the rows listed above, the one-pass scan, the cost against main, the Node runs, the list of differences from Node. Belong to the follow-up: six findings on the stream-level branch. Not taken: a comment in stream.rs says nghttp3 resets the stream for :status in a request, which is the older nghttp3, and this diff does not touch that file. Not done: the hook cost on arm64, musl, macOS and Windows.

Found on the way, not fixed here.

• createBidirectionalStream() then session.close() before the handshake completes is a segmentation fault on main and on 1.4.2 (lsquic_hcso_write_goaway from QuicSession::apply_graceful_close).
• When a connection closes with an error, stream.closed of its streams fulfils. Node rejects it.
• After createBidirectionalStream({ headers }) rejects (for example connection: "close"), the stream it opened stays open and session.close() does not resolve.
• pendingTrailers with a block that sendTrailers() refuses leaves an uncaught exception. Node v26.10.0 fixed that in [kTrailers].

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[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 4 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 7 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts:
(node:24340) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) QuicStream.destroy after the app ended the send side > delivers the committed response instead of retracting it with RESET_STREAM [528.92ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header encoding > round-trips non-ASCII header values byte-for-byte [96.28ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header encoding > rejects a value whose latin1 encoding splices in an extra header [1099.51ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header blocks that follow another header block > a client gets two interim responses and the final response in order [230.26ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header blocks that follow another header block > a server gets the trailers that follow the request headers [109.64ms]
358 |     seen.responseGetter = { ...stream.headers };
359 |     await stream.closed;
360 |     await serverStream.closed;
361 |     await client.clos
... (truncated)

release without fix: 7 FAILED
bun test v1.4.4-canary.1 (e00ab8717)

test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts:
(node:24370) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) QuicStream.destroy after the app ended the send side > delivers the committed response instead of retracting it with RESET_STREAM [21.75ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header encoding > round-trips non-ASCII header values byte-for-byte [7.24ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header encoding > rejects a value whose latin1 encoding splices in an extra header [1015.47ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header blocks that follow another header block > a client gets two interim responses and the final response in order [10.13ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header blocks that follow another header block > a server gets the trailers that follow the request headers [7.30ms]
358 |     seen.responseGetter = { ...stream.headers };
359 |     await stream.closed;
360 |     await serverStream.closed;
361 |     await client.close();
362 | 
363 |     expect(seen).toEqual({
                       ^
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  {
    "body": "body",
    "info": {
      ":status": "103
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts:
(node:24712) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) QuicStream.destroy after the app ended the send side > delivers the committed response instead of retracting it with RESET_STREAM [500.22ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header encoding > round-trips non-ASCII header values byte-for-byte [69.35ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header encoding > rejects a value whose latin1 encoding splices in an extra header [1083.22ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header blocks that follow another header block > a client gets two interim responses and the final response in order [182.62ms]
(pass) HTTP/3 header blocks that follow another header block > a server gets the trailers that follow the request headers [120.57ms]
(pass) received HTTP/3 fields that hold CR or LF > a field value with CR LF is left out of every kind of block and the rest is delivered [121.46ms]
(p
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     209b9bd29d
  features     lto, baseline

23 deps, 171 codegen, 1191 objects in 2121ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[0/2] cargo plan → /workspace/bun/build/release/rust-target/plan.json
268 units: 194 lib, 16 proc-macro (host), 20 custom-build (host), 16 run custom-build, 17 lib (host), 4 run custom-build (host), 1 rlib
[1/2] reconfigure
[1/287] gen compressed/completions/bun.zsh.zst
[2/287] gen compressed/completions/bun.fish.zst
[3/287] gen compressed/completions/bun.bash.zst
[4/287] gen compressed/src/lint/linter/schema/schemas.txt.zst
[5/287] gen ErrorCode+*.h
[6/287] gen bake.{client,server,error}.js
-> bake.client.js, bake.server.js, bake.error.js
[7/285] gen .bind.ts → Generated*.{cpp,h}, generated_bindgen_*.rs
[8/285] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[9/285] gen BunObject.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/BunObject.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp
[10/285] gen ProcessBindingNatives.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/bu
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c |  16 ++-
 src/js/internal-for-testing.ts             |   5 +
 src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts               |   9 ++
 test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts      | 195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file

file                                        reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c      4      4     82
src/js/internal-for-testing.ts                  1      3     81
src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts                    2      3     80
test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts           4      4     79

[robobun]

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[robobun]

Status for #45537.

How I reproduced it: a node:quic server and client on loopback, HTTP/3. The client sends "x-a": "v\r\ninjected: 1" with sendHeaders(). The server answers with the same value in a 103 block, a 200 block and trailers. On main and on 1.4.2 the value reaches onheaders, oninfo, ontrailers and stream.headers on both sides. With this PR the field is absent from every block and the other fields arrive. Node v26.3.0, built with --experimental-quic, gives the same result as this PR in both roles.

The seven tests of the new block in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts are that exchange, plus the name, position, tab, te, pseudo-header, maxHeaderPairs and maxHeaderLength rows.

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Walkthrough

QUIC header processing now skips non-pseudo fields whose names or values contain CR or LF. Tests send raw HTTP/3 header blocks and cover filtering across requests, trailers, and responses.

Changes

QUIC header filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Header validation packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c	Header processing checks control bytes before counting fields. NUL still returns an error. CR or LF in a non-pseudo field causes that field to be skipped.
Raw header test coverage src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts, src/js/internal-for-testing.ts, test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts	A testing helper sends raw header blocks. Tests cover CR/LF filtering in field names and values, tab retention, pseudo-headers, and maxHeaderPairs counting.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the rewritten hook in packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c for the empty-name case (name[0] is guarded by !hdr->name_len, and both helpers return 0 for n == 0) and the max_bytes precheck still running before the CR/LF filter (a dropped field at the byte limit returns 0 either way, so the result is the same). The sendRawHeadersForTesting closure is assigned in the QuicStream static block before the module's default export object is built, matching the existing getQuicStreamState pattern, so the bun:internal-for-testing re-export is live.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the lsquic header-decode hook in the node:quic C shim to silently drop regular HTTP/3 fields holding CR or LF (keeping the NUL connection-close), adds a test-only raw header sender in src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts exposed via bun:internal-for-testing, and adds four tests. It touches a wire-data parsing path that is security-relevant (header injection), and inline findings were posted, so a human decision on the pseudo-header and NUL handling is still needed.

[claude]

I reviewed the new push and found no bugs; since this changes how native code treats peer-controlled header bytes and the drop-vs-fail question is still open for a maintainer, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed on this push:

• The one-pass scan in node_quic_shim.c: lsqpack lays out every decoded field as name, ": ", value, "\r\n" in the buffer from nq_hsi_prepare_decode, so val_offset >= name_offset, the scanned region is initialized, and the trailing CRLF falls outside field_len; the empty-name guard precedes name[0].
• The raw sender's name\0value\0\0 block and [block, count] tuple match buildNgHeaderString (kNoHeaderFlags is "\0") and the three real #handle.sendHeaders call sites.
• The maxHeaderLength: 57 / maxHeaderPairs: 5 arithmetic in the test is exact (48 pseudo bytes, 9 for x-bad, 8 for x-ok), and the tests now settle on closed rather than on callback-only resolvers.

Extended reasoning...

The diff rewrites the lsquic hset_if process_header hook in packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c to scan one contiguous name+value region of the decode buffer and silently drop non-pseudo fields containing CR or LF before counting them, adds a test-only raw header sender in src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts exposed through bun:internal-for-testing, and adds six tests in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts. The security-sensitive surface is header-injection handling of adversarial peer bytes in native code; the scan bounds, the raw block format, and the limit arithmetic in the tests were checked and hold. A human look is still warranted because the PR explicitly leaves a policy question open (drop the field as nghttp3 does versus fail the message as Bun.serve/fetch do), two competing open PRs cover the same row, and pseudo-headers with CR/LF are still delivered by design. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files and no third-party objection is outstanding.