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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-22916: Vulnerability in Xz

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-22916: Vulnerability in Xz

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/22/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xz

References

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