Out-of-memory during deserialization with crafted inputs

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50354",
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    "title": "Out-of-memory during deserialization with crafted inputs",
    "summary": "gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.572463882Z",
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  "document_id": 508971,
  "published_at": "2024-10-31T15:59:30.063+00:00"
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