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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-11939

Golang Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2020.03.16.00.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-11939

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Mar 2020, 01:15 UTC

Golang Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2020.03.16.00.

osv:CVE-2019-11939
Complete source record
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