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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-11922): Zstandard vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-11922): Zstandard vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/25/2019
Created
08/24/2019
Added
08/22/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A race condition in the one-pass compression functions of Zstandard prior to version 1.3.8 could allow an attacker to write bytes out of bounds if an output buffer smaller than the recommended size was used.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzstd1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-zstd

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