cve/2024/CVE-2024-50354.md

### [CVE-2024-50354](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-50354)
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### Description

gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. In gnark 0.11.0 and earlier, deserialization of Groth16 verification keys allocate excessive memory, consuming a lot of resources and triggering a crash with the error fatal error: runtime: out of memory.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/pull/1307
- https://github.com/Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds