Bug 2234987

Summary:	xz: Denial of service via decompression of crafted file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acrosby, adudiak, agarcial, aoconnor, asegurap, bdettelb, caswilli, dfreiber, fjansen, jburrell, jmitchel, jsherril, jtanner, kaycoth, kshier, ljavorsk, luizcosta, mmuzila, nweather, pkubat, praiskup, rogbas, stcannon, tcarlin, vkumar, yguenane, zmiklank
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Bug Depends On:	2234989, 2234990, 2235294, 2235295
Bug Blocks:	2234988

Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-08-25 20:58:37 UTC

An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of crafted file.

References:

https://tukaani.org/xz/
https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability

Comment 2 Lukas Javorsky 2023-08-28 09:12:26 UTC

https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability is a broken link

Comment 3 TEJ RATHI 2023-08-28 10:24:53 UTC

Created xz tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2235294]

Comment 4 TEJ RATHI 2023-08-28 10:26:46 UTC

Created mingw-xz tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2235295]