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Debian: CVE-2016-1624: brotli -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-1624: brotli -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Integer underflow in the ProcessCommandsInternal function in dec/decode.c in Brotli, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data with brotli compression.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-brotli

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