CVE-2020-22916

DISPUTED An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a crafted file. NOTE: the vendor disputes the claims of "endless output" and "denial of service" because decompression of the 17,486 bytes always results in 114,881,179 bytes, which is ofte...

CVE-2020-22916

An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a crafted file. NOTE: the vendor disputes the claims of "endless output" and "denial of service" because decompression of the 17,486 bytes always results in 114,881,179 bytes, which is often a...

CVE-2020-22916

CVE-2020-22916 affects XZ 5.2.5: a flaw in the decompression algorithm can be exploited by decompressing a crafted file to trigger a denial of service. The exploited payload is described as a decompression bomb: decompression of 17,486 bytes reportedly expands to 114,881,179 bytes, which the vend...