Security Advisory

CVE-2026-21869

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-01-07 23:37:59
Last updated 2026-01-08 19:15:28
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

llama.cpp is an inference of several LLM models in C/C++. In commits 55d4206c8 and prior, the n_discard parameter is parsed directly from JSON input in the llama.cpp servers completion endpoints without validation to ensure its non-negative. When a negative value is supplied and the context fills up, llama_memory_seq_rm/add receives a reversed range and negative offset, causing out-of-bounds memory writes in the token evaluation loop. This deterministic memory corruption can crash the process or enable remote code execution (RCE). There is no fix at the time of publication.