CVE-2026-2219 (GCVE-0-2026-2219)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-07 08:10
Modified
2026-03-09 14:52
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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).
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Debian dpkg Version: 1.21.18   ≤
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