MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-63209 (CVSS 7.5)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 29, 2026Risk 23/100
compress provides various compression algorithms. Prior to version 1.18.7, a signed integer overflow vulnerability in s2.NewDict() allows an attacker to bypass repeat index validation by supplying a dictionary with a uvarint-encoded repeat value exceeding MaxInt64. When Dict.Encode() is subsequently called, the overflowed negative repeat value causes an out-of-bounds memory access via unsafe.Pointer arithmetic, crashing the process with SIGSEGV. This issue has been patched in version 1.18.7.
Technical details
CVSS
7.5
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High
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