Uncontrolled recursion in the Ion reader in Amazon Ion-C before 1.1.6

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-84851",
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    "title": "Uncontrolled recursion in the Ion reader in Amazon Ion-C before 1.1.6",
    "summary": "An uncontrolled recursion issue exists in Amazon Ion-C versions before 1.1.6 that might allow a remote unauthenticated actor to craft Ion data that exhausts the native call stack and crashes the application using the library, resulting in a denial of service.",
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            "v1.1.5",
            "v1.1.4",
            "v1.1.3",
            "v1.1.2",
            "v1.1.0",
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            "v1.0.5",
            "v1.4.0",
            "v1.0.3",
            "v1.0.2",
            "v1.0.1",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.172812709Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-094-aws/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84851.json",
        "https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-c/security/advisories/GHSA-9gfg-hgj4-gh44",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84851",
        "https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-c/releases/tag/v1.1.6"
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  "document_id": 494826,
  "published_at": "2026-09-02T20:19:55.616+00:00"
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