CVE-2020-22916 - An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a

CVE-2020-22916

Summary

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.

References

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

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:tukaani:xz:5.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tukaani:xz:5.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	None
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability

Last major update

04-08-2024 - 15:15

Published

22-08-2023 - 19:16

Last modified

04-08-2024 - 15:15