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Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2026· Updated Sep 9, 2026

CVE-2026-53531

CVE-2026-53531

Description

RaTeX is a KaTeX-compatible math rendering engine written in Rust. Prior to version 0.1.11, RaTeX’s recursive-descent parser recurses one (or more) native stack frame per nesting level at {, \left, \sqrt{, ^{, etc, with no maximum depth limit. A short, ~10 KB input of nested groups overflows the 8 MB main-thread stack and aborts the process. With panic = "abort" (Cargo.toml:48), and because a Rust stack overflow is always a fatal SIGABRT regardless of panic strategy this is an unrecoverable, whole-process denial of service reachable from a single untrusted LaTeX string. Version 0.1.11 fixes the issue.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
ratex-parsercrates.io
< 0.1.110.1.11

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