๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-2219

HIGH 7.5
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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).

Vendor debian
Product dpkg
Ecosystems
Industries
Technology
Published Mar 7, 2026
Last Updated Mar 9, 2026
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Affected Versions

Debian / dpkg
1.21.18 < 1.23.6

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.dpkg.org: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=6610297a62c0780dd0e80b0e302ef64fdcc9d313 bugs.debian.org: https://bugs.debian.org/1129722

Credits

๐Ÿ” Yashashree Gund