CVE-2026-111108 Apache Kafka: Broker OutOfMemoryError via array allocation amplification in code-generated protocol readers
Exploit status: No public exploit known
Affects: redhat/openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-dispatcher-rhel9, redhat/openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-receiver-rhel9, redhat/kafka-clients and 1 more
Apache Kafka's code-generated protocol readers pre-size an array's collection from the element count declared by the sender. That count is checked only against the bytes remaining in the request buffer, which assumes about one byte per element; because most elements need several...