THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2026 48° E  /  GLOBAL TECH · SUMMARISED SUBSCRIBE
AI, business, devices, policy — global tech, summarised every 30 minutes.
Security · 1h ago

Ollama's Three-Year RCE Streak: Model Parsing Flaws Persist

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Ollama has suffered three remote-code-execution vulnerabilities since 2022, all from parsing untrusted model files. The latest, an out-of-bounds write in MLLAMA metadata parsing, affects all versions before 0.7.0. Attackers can exploit these flaws by uploading malicious models to public registries, enabling code execution on self-hosted runtimes.

Meridian48 take
The recurring bug class suggests a systemic failure to treat model files as untrusted input, not just data—a lesson for any fast-moving AI infrastructure project.
Read the full reporting
Ollama Model Loading RCE: Three Years of the Same Bug Class, One Self-Hosted LLM Runtime →
DEV Community
ollamarce
More security briefs
Go deeper on security
AllAIStartupsBusinessDevicesPolicySecurityDev ToolsPakistan