CVE-2020-22916

Name
CVE-2020-22916
Description
An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a crafted file. NOTE: the vendor disputes the claims of "endless output" and "denial of service" because decompression of the 17,486 bytes always results in 114,881,179 bytes, which is often a reasonable size increase.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://tukaani.org/xz/
MISC https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
cve@mitre.org http://web.archive.org/web/20230918084612/https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234987
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214590
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/61
cve@mitre.org https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-22916

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
n/a == n/a == n/a

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
xz 3.16-main 5.2.5-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
xz 3.15-main 5.2.5-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable