# CVE-2026-109395: Ning compress-lzf before 1.2.0 Out-of-Bounds Memory Access via UnsafeChunkDecoder

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.0
- Published: 2026-10-20 · Updated: 2026-10-20

## Affected

- ning compress-lzf: fixed in 1.2.0

## Description

Ning compress-lzf before 1.2.0 contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the sun.misc.Unsafe based UnsafeChunkDecoder that fails to validate back-references and literal runs. Attackers can supply crafted LZF streams to applications using the default LZFDecoder to leak unrelated JVM heap memory into decompressed output or crash the JVM.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ning compress-lzf, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ning/compress/pull/68
- https://github.com/ning/compress/commit/06bdc3744a96b736a7118891f403e44c664f108b
- https://github.com/ning/compress/blob/compress-lzf-1.1.3/src/main/java/com/ning/compress/lzf/impl/UnsafeChunkDecoder.java#L104
- https://github.com/github/securitylab/discussions/970
- https://github.com/ning/compress
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ning-compress-lzf-before-1.2.0-out-of-bounds-memory-access-via-unsafechunkdecoder

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