RUSTSEC-2026-0431 Unbounded memory allocation in `evtx` parsing a `.wevtcache` file

Affected versions of evtx did not bound a per-entry payload length read from a .wevtcache file before allocating a buffer sized from it, allowing a tiny crafted file to force a multi-gigabyte allocation and abort the process out-of-memory denial of service, CWE-400. Details In...

Unbounded memory allocation in `evtx` parsing a `.wevtcache` file

Affected versions of evtx did not bound a per-entry payload length read from a .wevtcache file before allocating a buffer sized from it, allowing a tiny crafted file to force a multi-gigabyte allocation and abort the process out-of-memory denial of service, CWE-400. Details In...