CVE-2017-18258
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-04-08 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 21:13
Severity ?
Summary
The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bbPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0001/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
Impacted products
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