Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04, Wire's Swift runtime ProtoReader.skipGroup(expectedEndTag:unknownFieldsWriter:) accepts a negative length for a LENGTH_DELIMITED field inside an unknown START_GROUP field. ProtoReader.readData() forwards the negative count to ReadBuffer.readData(count:), whose upper-bound-only check permits the value to reach Foundation Data(bytes:count:) and trigger an unrecoverable process trap instead of a catchable ProtoDecoder.Error. Any Swift process decoding untrusted protobuf bytes can be crashed without authentication, user interaction, or knowledge of the target schema. This issue is fixed in versions 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04.
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GHSA-86wm-r4c5-2rc9 | Wire Swift runtime: negative LENGTH_DELIMITED length in skipGroup() crashes any protobuf-decoding service |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04, Wire's Swift runtime ProtoReader.skipGroup(expectedEndTag:unknownFieldsWriter:) accepts a negative length for a LENGTH_DELIMITED field inside an unknown START_GROUP field. ProtoReader.readData() forwards the negative count to ReadBuffer.readData(count:), whose upper-bound-only check permits the value to reach Foundation Data(bytes:count:) and trigger an unrecoverable process trap instead of a catchable ProtoDecoder.Error. Any Swift process decoding untrusted protobuf bytes can be crashed without authentication, user interaction, or knowledge of the target schema. This issue is fixed in versions 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04. | |
| Title | Wire Swift runtime: negative LENGTH_DELIMITED length in skipGroup() crashes any protobuf-decoding service | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-129 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-23T18:44:11.336Z
Reserved: 2026-07-10T18:36:58.850Z
Link: CVE-2026-61695
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-23T19:17:32.810
Modified: 2026-09-23T19:17:32.810
Link: CVE-2026-61695
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