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CVE-2026-5190 - AWS C Event Stream Streaming Decoder Stack Buffer Overflow

Bulletin ID: 2026-011-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/03/31 10:15 AM PDT Description: AWS Common Runtime library is used by several AWS SDKs to communicate with event-stream services (Ex. Kinesis, Transcribe). We identified CVE-2026-5190. AWS Common Runtime event-stream decoder component before 0.6.0 might allow a third party operating a server to cause memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution on a client application that processes crafted event-stream messages. Impacted versions: - aws-c-event-stream < 0.6.0and the following higher level libraries that expose event-stream functionality - aws-iot-device-sdk-cpp-v2 < 1.42.1 - aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2 < 1.30.1 - aws-iot-device-sdk-python-v2 < 1.28.2 - aws-iot-device-sdk-js-v2 < 1.25.1 - aws-sdk-swift < 1.6.70 - aws-sdk-cpp < 1.11.764 Please refer to the article below for the most up-to-date and complete information related to this AWS Security Bulletin.

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