CVE-2022-4899

Publication date 31 March 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability was found in zstd v1.4.10, where an attacker can supply empty string as an argument to the command line tool to cause buffer overrun.

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libzstd	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

The vulnerable code was introduced by commit 9a8ccd4b (v1.4.6). The vulnerable function is therefore not present in focal and earlier.

crash via out of bounds read because of incorrect command line arguments, this is a low priority issue.

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Package	Patch details
libzstd	Upstream: 28ceb63