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 crafted file.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
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

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:tukaani:xz:5.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* xz == None == 5.2.5

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