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[GHSA] GHSA-pr85-w493-9w3x (critical) — resdata has Classic Buffer Overflow, Improper Validation of Array Index, NULL Pointer Dereference and Out-of-bounds Read

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-18

GHSA-pr85-w493-9w3x Severity: critical CVE: CVE-2026-55209

resdata has Classic Buffer Overflow, Improper Validation of Array Index, NULL Pointer Dereference and Out-of-bounds Read

### Impact Prior to version 6.2.9 resdata would not correctly validate input in GRDECL files. The severity rating assumes that resdata is used to parse untrused files in a networking context such as a webservice.

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pr85-w493-9w3x