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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-48502 EUVD-2026-38389GHSA-382j-8mxh-c7x2

MessagePack-CSharp: Denial of service vulnerabilities can swamp the CPU or crash the process with stack and heap overflows

Published Jun 22, 2026 · Updated Jun 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, MessagePackReader.ReadDateTime() can allocate stack memory based on an attacker-controlled MessagePack extension length. In the slow path for timestamp extension parsing, the computed tokenSize includes the extension body length from the wire and is used in a stackalloc operation before the extension length is validated as one of the valid timestamp sizes. A very small payload can claim a large timestamp extension body and cause a stack allocation large enough to trigger an uncatchable StackOverflowException, terminating the host process. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.301 and 3.1.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MessagePack-CSharp MessagePack-CSharp >= 3.1.7, < 3.1.7, < 2.5.301 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-msgpack No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet MessagePack >= 3.0, < 3.1.7 3.1.7 GHSA-382j-8mxh-c7x2

References