CVE-2026-2219

high

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).

References

https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=6610297a62c0780dd0e80b0e302ef64fdcc9d313

https://bugs.debian.org/1129722

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-07

Updated: 2026-03-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High