# CVE-2026-106449: yawkat LZ4 Java: LZ4BlockInputStream with stopOnEmptyBlock=false recurses once per empty block, causing StackOverflowError

- Also known as: GHSA-343H-94H5-C4WR
- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.11.4
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- yawkat lz4-java: fixed in 1.11.4
- at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java (Maven): fixed in 1.11.4
- org.lz4:lz4-java (Maven): through 1.8.1

## Description

yawkat LZ4 Java provides LZ4 compression for Java. Prior to 1.11.4, net.jpountz.lz4.LZ4BlockInputStream configured with stopOnEmptyBlock set to false handles each well-formed empty LZ4Block by recursively calling refill(), allowing a long sequence of empty blocks in an attacker-controlled compressed stream to exhaust the decoding thread's stack and throw StackOverflowError. The default stopOnEmptyBlock setting is true and is not affected, and the issue does not cause memory corruption. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yawkat lz4-java, at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java, org.lz4:lz4-java, upgrade to a fixed version (1.11.4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/security/advisories/GHSA-343h-94h5-c4wr
- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/commit/c8ebf97d504fb34434fda46fc761e8202570e0d8
- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/releases/tag/v1.11.4

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