CVE-2020-22916

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-22916
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-22 19:16:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tukaani Xz 5.2.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitHub - snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability: XZ 5.2.5 mishandles read the designed payload, leading to denial of service (resource consumption) MISC web.archive.org
2234987 – (CVE-2020-22916) CVE-2020-22916 xz: Denial of service via decompression of crafted file MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Fix for CVE-2020-22916 · Issue #61 · tukaani-project/xz · GitHub MISC github.com
1214590 – (CVE-2020-22916) VUL-0: CVE-2020-22916: xz: denial-of-service via decompression of crafted file MISC bugzilla.suse.com
Page not found · GitHub · GitHub MISC github.com
503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout MISC security-tracker.debian.org
XZ Utils MISC tukaani.org
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