CVE-2026-109395
criticalpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.004 · 33 %ileEPSS · scored 2026-10-23
Ning compress-lzf before 1.2.0 contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the sun.misc.Unsafe based UnsafeChunkDecoder that fails to validate back-references and literal runs. Attackers can supply crafted LZF streams to applications using the default LZFDecoder to leak unrelated JVM heap memory into decompressed output or crash the JVM.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 6.8–9.1
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references (6) nvd
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/github/securitylab/discussions/970
- https://github.com/ning/compress
- https://github.com/ning/compress/blob/compress-lzf-1.1.3/src/main/java/com/ning/compress/lzf/impl/UnsafeChunkDecoder.java#L104
- https://github.com/ning/compress/commit/06bdc3744a96b736a7118891f403e44c664f108b
- https://github.com/ning/compress/pull/68
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ning-compress-lzf-before-1.2.0-out-of-bounds-memory-access-via-unsafechunkdecoder
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