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CVE-2026-63495

Libevent: Unbounded memory accumulation in WebSocket server via fragmented frames PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Libevent is an event notification library. From 2.2.0-alpha-dev until 2.2.2-alpha, the libevent WebSocket server in ws.c accumulates fragmented frames in evws->incomplete_frames without enforcing a total message-size limit. An unauthenticated remote client can repeatedly send fragmented WebSocket frames below WS_MAX_RECV_FRAME_SZ with FIN=0, causing the evbuffer to grow without bound until the process or host exhausts memory. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.2-alpha.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
libevent / libeventaffected >= 2.2.0-alpha-dev, < 2.2.2-alpha

CWE

CWE-400, CWE-770

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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