USN-7414-1

Harri K. Koskinen discovered that XZ Utils incorrectly handled the threaded xz decoder. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing an xz file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause XZ Utils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / xz-utils

Package

Name: xz-utils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xz-utils@5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

5.*

5.4.1-0.2

5.4.4-0.1

5.4.5-0.1

5.4.5-0.3

5.6.0-0.2

5.6.1+really5.4.5-1

5.6.1+really5.4.5-1build0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "liblzma-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "liblzma5",
            "binary_version": "5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xz-utils",
            "binary_version": "5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xzdec",
            "binary_version": "5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}