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CVE-2020-22916

Description

An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a crafted file. NOTE: the vendor disputes the claims of "endless output" and "denial of service" because decompression of the 17,486 bytes always results in 114,881,179 bytes, which is often a reasonable size increase.

POC

Reference

- http://web.archive.org/web/20230918084612/https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability

- https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability

Github

- https://github.com/adegoodyer/kubernetes-admin-toolkit

- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

- https://github.com/vin01/bogus-cves