CVE-2023-46228

Publication date 19 October 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

zchunk before 1.3.2 has multiple integer overflows via malformed zchunk files to lib/comp/comp.c, lib/comp/zstd/zstd.c, lib/dl/multipart.c, or lib/header.c.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
zchunk	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
zchunk	Upstream: 08aec2b

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H