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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-115913 EUVD-2026-110023GHSA-8397-8qf6-f2gm

vLLM: Phi-4 multimodal audio encoder materializes and retains full attention matrices: a single max-length audio OOM-crashes the vLLM engine

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. Prior to 0.32.0, the Phi-4 multimodal audio encoder in phi4mm_audio.py and phi4mm_utils.py uses eager attention by default, allowing a remote client to submit one legal long audio clip that causes MultiHeadedAttention.forward_attention to materialize and retain full attention matrices in self.attn. The scaled dot-product attention branch does not materialize these matrices. The resulting quadratic GPU-memory use can cause an out-of-memory condition and terminate EngineCore for all users. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vllm-project vllm < 0.32.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI vllm < 0.32.0 0.32.0 GHSA-8397-8qf6-f2gm

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