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Apache bRPC: Out-of-bounds Read in Multi-stream RPC Response Handling

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the streaming RPC client of Apache bRPC (versions 1.11.0 through 1.17.0) on all platforms. A client that creates multiple streams in a single RPC expects the server response to carry exactly one extra_stream_id for every additional stream. The response handling path indexed the returned identifiers using the locally created stream count without first validating the size of the returned list, so a malicious or compromised server (or an on-path attacker) can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the client by returning a malformed StreamSettings response with fewer extra_stream_ids than expected. This may crash the client process (denial of service) or leak unintended memory contents into subsequent stream handling; surplus identifiers have no valid client-stream mapping and are processed inconsistently. Root Cause: Since bRPC 1.11.0, a client can create multiple streams in one RPC via batch StreamCreate. The expected behavior is that the server response must return exactly (N-1) extra_stream_ids, where N is the number of locally created streams. In Controller::HandleStreamConnection, the response path reads extra_stream_ids[i-1] for each additional local stream without first comparing the returned list size with (N-1). If the server returns fewer identifiers, the read runs past the end of the returned list (out-of-bounds read); if it returns more, the surplus identifiers have no corresponding client-side stream. Affected Scenarios: A bR

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CVE-2026-79704

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Apache bRPC

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[
  {
    "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
    "product": "Apache bRPC",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.11.0",
        "lessThan": "1.18.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "packageURL": "pkg:github/apache/brpc",
    "packageName": "apache/brpc",
    "collectionURL": "https://github.com",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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