Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt object file from a disguised test file existing in the source code, which is then used to modify specific functions in the liblzma code. This results in a modified liblzma library that can be used by any software linked against this library, intercepting and modifying the data interaction with this library.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-506"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/3xxx/CVE-2024-3094.json",
"cna_assigner": "redhat"
}{
"cpe": [
"cpe:2.3:a:tukaani:xz:5.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:tukaani:xz:5.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "5.6.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "5.6.0"
},
{
"introduced": "5.6.1"
},
{
"last_affected": "5.6.1"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_STRING"
]
}