Posted by Lee Rhodes on Oct 10 Severity: low Affected versions: - Apache DataSketches 2.0.0-incubating through 5.2.0 Description: Out-of-bounds read in the VarOpt union deserialization of Apache DataSketches C++ (repo: datasketches-cpp). var_opt_union::deserialize() read the 32-byte preamble of a non-empty union after checking that only 8 bytes were available, so a truncated serialized union could cause a read of up to 24 bytes past the end of the input. For such...
CVE-2026-103636: Apache DataSketches: datasketches-cpp: Out-of-bounds read in VarOpt union deserialization allows denial of service via a truncated sketch
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