Bug 1214590 (CVE-2020-22916)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2020-22916: xz: denial-of-service via decompression of crafted file
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Alexander Bergmann <abergmann>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/375984/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2020-22916:3.3:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Alexander Bergmann 2023-08-24 15:05:54 UTC

CVE-2020-22916

An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service
via decompression of crafted file.

The below github link is not working. Unclear about how this can be reproduced or if we have a fix.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-22916
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22916
https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
https://tukaani.org/xz/

Comment 1 Danilo Spinella 2023-10-11 10:05:10 UTC

Looking at the github issue in xz repository [1], it seems that this is not an actual issue.

https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/61