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High · 7.4 CVE-2026-59986 EUVD-2026-121280

rabbitmq-c: amqp_decode_bytes size_t integer overflow bypasses bounds check on 32-bit (OOB read)

Published Nov 10, 2026 · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

rabbitmq-c is a C-language AMQP client library for RabbitMQ. Prior to version 0.17.0, the bounds check (*offset = o + len) <= encoded.len overflows when o + len > SIZE_MAX on 32-bit systems. len is a uint32_t read from the AMQP wire as a BYTES/UTF8 field length. The overflow wraps the check to a small value that passes, producing a decoded amqp_bytes_t with a multi-GB .len pointing into a small frame buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds read of up to ~4GB of process memory on 32-bit systems (ARM, MIPS, x86 ILP32, embedded IoT AMQP clients). Enabling information disclosure or denial of service. Not exploitable on 64-bit systems where size_t is 64-bit. This issue has been patched in version 0.17.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
alanxz rabbitmq-c < 0.17.0 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 librabbitmq 0.17.0-1 —
Debian 13 librabbitmq 0.15.0-1+deb13u2 —
Debian 12 librabbitmq 0.11.0-1+deb12u3 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.15.0-1ubuntu0.26.04.2 USN-8724-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.11.0-1ubuntu0.2 USN-8724-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.10.0-1ubuntu2.2 USN-8724-1
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.10.0-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1 USN-8724-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.8.0-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1 USN-8724-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.7.1-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 USN-8724-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS librabbitmq 0.4.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-8724-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 librabbitmq No fix yet —

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