vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-9251)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 4, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue has been found in libxml2 <= 2.9.8 compiled with LZMA support enabled, in the xz_decomp function in xzlib.c. This flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop, using a crafted XML payload that triggers LZMA_MEMLIMIT_ERROR.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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