Wire Swift runtime: negative LENGTH_DELIMITED length in skipGroup() crashes any protobuf-decoding service

Summary Wire's Swift runtime Wire SPM/CocoaPods product, implemented by wire-runtime-swift did not reject a negative LENGTHDELIMITED field length while skipping an unknown protobuf group. A crafted 10-byte protobuf payload could cause ProtoReader.skipGroup to read a length-delimited field whose...

CVE-2026-61695 Wire Swift runtime: negative LENGTH_DELIMITED length in skipGroup() crashes any protobuf-decoding service

Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04, Wire's Swift runtime ProtoReader.skipGroupexpectedEndTag:unknownFieldsWriter: accepts a negative length for a LENGTHDELIMITED field inside an unknown STARTGROUP field...

CVE-2026-61695 Wire Swift runtime: negative LENGTH_DELIMITED length in skipGroup() crashes any protobuf-decoding service

Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04, Wire's Swift runtime ProtoReader.skipGroupexpectedEndTag:unknownFieldsWriter: accepts a negative length for a LENGTHDELIMITED field inside an unknown STARTGROUP field...