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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-72854 EUVD-2026-63537GHSA-p5jw-mm77-f8jp

msgpack-c Integer Overflow in msgpack_unpacker_expand_buffer Causes a False-Success Undersized Reservation

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

msgpack_unpacker_expand_buffer in src/unpack.c, reached through the public msgpack_unpacker_reserve_buffer API, computes its new buffer size using an unchecked size_t addition of the requested size and the amount already used. The doubling loop guards its own multiplication against overflow, but the addition in the loop condition is unguarded, so a request near SIZE_MAX wraps: the loop condition is already satisfied, the allocation is performed at the small pre-wrap size, and the function returns true. The caller is told the requested capacity was reserved when it was not, so a subsequent write of the requested length overflows the heap buffer. The library's own example/lib_buffer_unpack.c demonstrates the reserve-then-write pattern, and its defensive assert comparing capacity against the request is compiled out under NDEBUG. msgpack-c's own decode entry points do not derive the reservation size from untrusted input, so reaching this requires an integration that passes an attacker-influenced length to the reservation API, such as a length-prefixed streaming transport.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
msgpack msgpack-c ≤ 7.0.1 —

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 msgpack-c 7.0.2-1 —
Debian 13 msgpack-c No fix yet —
Debian 12 msgpack-c No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 msgpack-c No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS msgpack-c No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS msgpack-c No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS msgpack-c No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS msgpack-c No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS msgpack-c No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 msgpack-c 7.0.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23630-1
SLES 16.0 msgpack-c 7.0.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23630-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed msgpack-c 7.0.2-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11672-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 msgpack-c 7.0.2-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21768-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 msgpack +2 No fix yet —

Advisories 3

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