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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Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:15:00 +0000
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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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: debian
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-07T08:17:33.342Z
Reserved: 2026-02-08T15:48:51.824Z
Link: CVE-2026-2219
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-07T09:16:07.823
Modified: 2026-03-07T09:16:07.823
Link: CVE-2026-2219
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