Bug 2520682 (CVE-2026-72854) - CVE-2026-72854 msgpack-c: msgpack-c: Heap buffer overflow via integer overflow in buffer expansion.
Summary: CVE-2026-72854 msgpack-c: msgpack-c: Heap buffer overflow via integer overflo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72854
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2521811
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Reported: 2026-08-20 18:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-24 11:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 18:44:06 UTC
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.


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