CVE-2026-2219 PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian
Reserved: 08.02.2026 Published: 07.03.2026 Updated: 07.03.2026

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).

Product Status

Vendor Debian
Product dpkg
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 1.21.18 to 1.23.6 (excl.)

Credits

  • Yashashree Gund reporter

References