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.
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