FKIE_CVE-2026-33491

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-26 19:17 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:37
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Zen C is a systems programming language that compiles to human-readable GNU C/C11. Prior to version 0.4.4, a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Zen C compiler allows attackers to cause a compiler crash or potentially execute arbitrary code by providing a specially crafted Zen C source file (`.zc`) with excessively long struct, function, or trait identifiers. Users are advised to update to Zen C version v0.4.4 or later to receive a patch.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/zenc-lang/zenc/security/advisories/GHSA-rv74-w6q7-h8xrExploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
zenc-lang zen_c *
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