Unbounded Decompression Vulnerability in Veilid before 0.1.9

CVE-2023-40711 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Veilid before 0.1.9 does not check the size of uncompressed data during decompression upon an envelope receipt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory abort) via crafted packet data, as exploited in the wild in August 2023.

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