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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-48510 EUVD-2026-38386GHSA-v72x-2h86-7f8m

MessagePack-CSharp: LZ4 decompression allocates from unbounded declared output lengths

Published Jun 22, 2026 · Updated Jun 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, when MessagePack-CSharp decompresses Lz4Block or Lz4BlockArray payloads, it reads declared uncompressed lengths from the wire and allocates output buffers based on those lengths before validating that the compressed data is valid or that the declared expansion is reasonable. A small payload can claim a very large uncompressed length and force a large allocation before LZ4 decoding begins. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.301 and 3.1.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MessagePack-CSharp MessagePack-CSharp >= 3.0, < 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 < 2.5.301 2.5.301 GHSA-v72x-2h86-7f8m
NuGet MessagePack >= 3.0, < 3.1.7 3.1.7 GHSA-v72x-2h86-7f8m

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