VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-2219

high
Published 2026-03-07 · Modified 2026-06-02
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.22.22
sid Fixed 1.23.6
forky Fixed 1.23.6
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 1.21.23

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
debian debiandpkg{"startIncluding":"1.21.18","endExcluding":"1.21.23"}1.21.23
debian debiandpkg{"startIncluding":"1.22.0","endExcluding":"1.22.22"}1.22.22
debian debiandpkg{"startIncluding":"1.23.0","endExcluding":"1.23.6"}1.23.6
gcp googlegcp

References

CWEs

CWE-835

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.