Integer overflow causes an infinite loop in message buffer growth in PgBouncer
Integer overflow in the message buffer growth logic (mbuf_make_room) in PgBouncer 1.21.0 through 1.26.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service when max_packet_size is configured above 2147483648. A packet header declaring a length above 2^31 makes the buffer size computation overflow, leaving the growth loop unable to terminate. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this saturates a CPU core and stalls every pooled connection until the process is restarted. Since 1.23.0 the overflow is reachable before authentication with a five-byte packet header.
- Products
- pgbouncer
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.26.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-107348
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer overflow causes an infinite loop in message buffer growth in PgBouncer
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 21 Oct 2026, 08:55 UTC
Integer overflow in the message buffer growth logic (mbuf_make_room) in PgBouncer 1.21.0 through 1.26.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service when max_packet_size is configured above 2147483648. A packet header declaring a length above 2^31 makes the buffer size computation overflow, leaving the growth loop unable to terminate. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this saturates a CPU core and stalls every pooled connection until the process is restarted. Since 1.23.0 the overflow is reachable before authentication with a five-byte packet header.
osv:BIT-pgbouncer-2026-107348
pgbouncer
Fixed versions: 1.26.1
Complete source record
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