Zserio is a framework for serializing structured data with a compact and efficient way with low overhead. Prior to 2.18.1, a crafted payload as small as 4-5 bytes can force memory allocations of up to 16 GB, crashing any process with an OOM error (Denial of Service). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.18.1.
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| Description | Zserio is a framework for serializing structured data with a compact and efficient way with low overhead. Prior to 2.18.1, a crafted payload as small as 4-5 bytes can force memory allocations of up to 16 GB, crashing any process with an OOM error (Denial of Service). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.18.1. | |
| Title | Zserio: Integer Overflow in BitStreamReader and Unbounded Memory Allocation in Deserialization | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-789 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-24T18:18:02.913Z
Reserved: 2026-03-20T18:05:11.829Z
Link: CVE-2026-33524
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-24T19:17:09.850
Modified: 2026-04-24T19:17:09.850
Link: CVE-2026-33524
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