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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| Description | 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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: debian
Published: 2026-03-07T08:10:53.207Z
Updated: 2026-03-09T14:52:18.435Z
Reserved: 2026-02-08T15:48:51.824Z
Link: CVE-2026-2219
Updated: 2026-03-09T14:52:03.318Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-03-07T09:16:07.823
Modified: 2026-03-09T15:15:57.870
Link: CVE-2026-2219
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