CVE-2026-71218: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `JSON_read()` function, which accepts a peer-controlled message length and allocates memory without an upper bound. This allows the attacker to trigger excessive memory consumption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) through memory exhaustion, severe slowdown, or termination of the iperf3 service.
CVE-2026-71218: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Description
A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `JSON_read()` function, which accepts a peer-controlled message length and allocates memory without an upper bound. This allows the attacker to trigger excessive memory consumption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) through memory exhaustion, severe slowdown, or termination of the iperf3 service.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.3medium
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-05T08:41:54.899Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71218","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a7ae762bf8831d539789b34
Added to database: 08/11/2026, 09:12:02 UTC
Last updated: 08/11/2026, 09:12:02 UTC
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