CVE-2026-6668

Integer overflow causes an infinite loop in packet buffer growth in PgBouncer

CVE-2026-6668 is fixed in pgbouncer on 1 platform by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-6668 (version 1.26.0-1), released October 4, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.5
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0057
47th percentile

Integer overflow in the packet buffer growth logic in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Sufficiently large input makes the buffer size computation overflow, leaving the growth loop unable to terminate. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this saturates a CPU core and stalls every pooled connection until the process is killed. Both unauthenticated and authenticated code paths can reach the overflow.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
pgbouncer · Debian 14 1.26.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-6668 Oct 4, 2026

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