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Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()5 min read5 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2026-42249
+1 related CVE
Ollama for Windows contains a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in its update mechanism due to improper handling of attacker‑controlled HTTP response headers
7.7<1%
CVE-2026-7482
Ollama before 0.17.1 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the GGUF model loader
8.82%

From the original article

5 min read at thehackernews.com

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9. 1).

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