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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-33524 EUVD-2026-25591GHSA-cwq5-8pvq-j65j

Zserio: Integer Overflow in BitStreamReader and Unbounded Memory Allocation in Deserialization

Published Apr 24, 2026 · Updated Apr 27, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Zserio is a framework for serializing structured data with a compact and efficient way with low overhead. Prior to 2.18.1, a crafted payload as small as 4-5 bytes can force memory allocations of up to 16 GB, crashing any process with an OOM error (Denial of Service). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.18.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ndsev zserio < 2.18.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.github.ndsev:zserio-runtime < 2.18.1 2.18.1 GHSA-cwq5-8pvq-j65j

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