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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-83601 EUVD-2026-84563

Netdata: Streaming protocol dimension slot has no upper-bound guard, allowing integer overflow and out-of-bounds write

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

Description

Netdata is an open source observability tool. Prior to 2.10.4, an authenticated child agent can send an oversized DIMENSION SLOT value that str2ull_encoded passes to pluginsd_rrddim_put_to_slot in src/plugins.d/pluginsd_internals.h without an upper bound. prd_array_create in src/database/rrdset-pluginsd-array.h can then wrap the size_t allocation calculation while retaining the original large array size, causing the subsequent initialization loop to write beyond the undersized heap allocation and crash the parent agent. This issue is fixed in version 2.10.4 and nightly build 2.10.0-782-nightly.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
netdata netdata < 2.10.4 —

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 12 netdata No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS netdata No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
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Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS netdata No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS netdata No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS netdata No fix yet —

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