CVE-2025-11579 (GCVE-0-2025-11579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-10 11:15 – Updated: 2025-12-02 09:30
VLAI
Title
DoS via Out Of Memory Crash
Summary
github.com/nwaples/rardecode versions <=2.1.1 fail to restrict the dictionary size when reading large RAR dictionary sizes, which allows an attacker to provide a specially crafted RAR file and cause Denial of Service via an Out Of Memory Crash.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nwaples rardecode Affected: 2.0.1 , ≤ 2.1.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 2.2.0
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Credits
Juho Forsén
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