# CVE-2026-106453: yawkat LZ4 Java: LZ4DecompressorWithLength allocates the unvalidated size from the 4-byte length header, so a 5-byte input triggers a 1 GiB allocation and OutOfMemoryError

- Also known as: GHSA-6CX8-RJF8-PR8G
- 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: 1.11.2
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- yawkat lz4-java: fixed in 1.11.2
- at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java (Maven): fixed in 1.11.2
- org.lz4:lz4-java (Maven): through 1.8.1

## Description

yawkat LZ4 Java provides LZ4 compression for Java. Prior to 1.11.2, LZ4DecompressorWithLength uses getDecompressedLength to trust the four-byte decompressed-length header before validating the compressed input, allowing a five-byte attacker-supplied input whose header declares a large output size to request up to approximately 2 GiB and exhaust the JVM heap. Convenience overloads backed by LZ4FastDecompressor or LZ4SafeDecompressor allocate the untrusted size, while overloads that write to a caller-provided destination buffer are not affected because the caller controls the destination size. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.

## 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 (1.11.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/security/advisories/GHSA-6cx8-rjf8-pr8g
- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/commit/6492ce5aca6bd03ff9e08ee18a2beb94c431371a
- https://github.com/yawkat/lz4-java/releases/tag/v1.11.2

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