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TI-2026-66702 Aliases GHSA-fpf5-4jw8-67x8

rust-zserio has Unbounded Memory Allocation

Priority LOW 38CWE-789Published · Updated

Key facts

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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-789.

Summary

### Impact When deserializing arrays, strings or bytes (blob) types zserio first reads the size of the variable, and then allocates sufficient memory to load data. Since the size is always trusted this can be abused by creating a data file with a large size value, causing the zserio runtime to allocate large amounts of memory. ### Patches Please cherry-pick [57f5fb](https://github.com/Danaozhong/rust-zserio/commit/57f5fb4a2a8611d58dbcc1a9221349206dd99c3c). ### Workarounds - Do not accept `zserio`-encoded messages from non-trusted sources. - Allocate a maximum heap amount to `rust-zerio` to avoid impacting other applications.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed rust-zserio (crates.io): 0.5.4

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—rust-zserio (crates.io)before 0.5.40.5.4Patch availableGHSA-fpf5-4jw8-67x8
  • rust-zserio (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 0.5.4 Fixed in 0.5.4 Patch available GHSA-fpf5-4jw8-67x8

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-fpf5-4jw8-67x8 rust-zserio (crates.io) Fixed in 0.5.4 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-fpf5-4jw8-67x8

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