CVE-2026-2219 (GCVE-0-2026-2219)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-07 08:10 – Updated: 2026-03-07 10:02
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Summary
It was discovered that dpkg-deb (a component of dpkg, the Debian package management system) does not properly validate the end of the data stream when uncompressing a zstd-compressed .deb archive, which may result in denial of service (infinite loop spinning the CPU).
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Debian dpkg Affected: 1.21.18 , < 1.23.6 (semver)
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Credits
Yashashree Gund
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