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CVE-2017-18258

Published: 4/8/2018 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 4/8/2018

The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (5)

bap-llvm conf-gtksourceview conf-gtksourceview3 conf-librsvg2 lablgtk3-gtkspell3

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a <= v5.1.1

References (12)