# CVE-2026-106450: yawkat LZ4 Java: LZ4FrameInputStream reallocates block buffers for every frame, allowing CPU and GC amplification from small inputs

- Also known as: GHSA-GM45-99XC-R7WV
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.11.4
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-09

## 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.LZ4FrameInputStream readHeader() allocates two new 4 MiB block buffers whenever a maximum-block-size frame header is read, and the default concatenated-frame mode allows attacker-controlled streams containing many minimal empty frames to trigger roughly 8 MiB of allocation for every 11 input bytes. The stream produces no decompressed output while consuming CPU and garbage-collection time, so decompressed-size limits do not mitigate the issue; readSingleFrame mode is not affected. 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-gm45-99xc-r7wv
- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/commit/2acc0ec1ead226145c62a817c18c8ed49233a283
- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/releases/tag/v1.11.4

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