quirc — security advisory
quirc through 1.2 contains an excessive-iteration vulnerability in find_alignment_pattern() in lib/identify.c that allows attackers to hang quirc_end() with a crafted image. Attackers can arrange three finder patterns producing a near-degenerate perspective transform, causing billions of region_code() iterations that exhaust CPU in applications decoding attacker-supplied QR images.
- Products
- quirc
- Affected versions
- 1.2-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-110596
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 01:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
quirc through 1.2 contains an excessive-iteration vulnerability in find_alignment_pattern() in lib/identify.c that allows attackers to hang quirc_end() with a crafted image. Attackers can arrange three finder patterns producing a near-degenerate perspective transform, causing billions of region_code() iterations that exhaust CPU in applications decoding attacker-supplied QR images.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-110596
quirc
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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