Medium
lz4-java — security advisory
yawkat LZ4 Java provides LZ4 compression for Java. Prior to 1.11.4, net.jpountz.lz4.LZ4FrameInputStream readHeader() allocates two new 4 MiB block buffers whenever a maximum-block-size frame header is read, and the default concatenated-frame mode allows attacker-controlled streams containing many minimal empty frames to trigger roughly 8 MiB of allocation for every 11 input bytes. The stream produces no decompressed output while consuming CPU and garbage-collection time, so decompressed-size limits do not mitigate the issue; readSingleFrame mode is not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.4.
- Products
- lz4-java
- Affected versions
- 1.5.1-2, 1.5.1-3build1, 1.8.0-3, 1.8.0-4, 1.8.0-4build1, 1.8.0-4build2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-106450
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
yawkat LZ4 Java provides LZ4 compression for Java. Prior to 1.11.4, net.jpountz.lz4.LZ4FrameInputStream readHeader() allocates two new 4 MiB block buffers whenever a maximum-block-size frame header is read, and the default concatenated-frame mode allows attacker-controlled streams containing many minimal empty frames to trigger roughly 8 MiB of allocation for every 11 input bytes. The stream produces no decompressed output while consuming CPU and garbage-collection time, so decompressed-size limits do not mitigate the issue; readSingleFrame mode is not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.4.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-106450
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lz4-java
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Complete source record
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