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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-55246 EUVD-2026-102203

bincookie: Heap buffer overflow via unvalidated `num_pages` when parsing a `.binarycookies` file

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

bincookie is a header-only binarycookies parser. Prior to 0.1.9, bincookie_init_file() in bincookie.h allocates a buffer using the actual .binarycookies file length but trusts the file-controlled num_pages field as the loop bound for byte-swapping page_sizes entries. A crafted file can make the loop read and write beyond the heap allocation, and related unvalidated page sizes and cookie_offsets can drive additional out-of-bounds accesses in page and cookie iteration. Applications that parse an attacker-supplied binarycookies file may crash or suffer heap corruption that can potentially enable code execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.1.9.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Tatsh bincookie < 0.1.9 —

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