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CVE-2026-70640

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Description

llama.cpp builds b1886 through b7445 contain a race condition use-after-free vulnerability in the LLaMA-Android JNI wrapper where bench_1model() and free_1context() lack synchronization, allowing Thread A to operate on freed memory while Thread B concurrently frees the llama_context. Attackers can exploit this by performing heap spray with attacker-controlled data containing a fake vtable to hijack the vtable pointer at offset +0x30, causing llama_batch_allocr::clear() to dereference arbitrary memory and achieve remote code execution.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.3 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-08-06 22:18:28.927000
Last modified
2026-10-29 21:17:31.177000
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