CVE-2026-2219

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).

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Analyzed - security@debian.org

Published

2026-03-07

Last modified

2026-03-09

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected products

• Dpkg (Debian)

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/1129722
• https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=6610297a62c0780dd0e80b0e302ef64fdcc9d313