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).
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Description 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).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-07T10:02:03.145Z

Reserved: 2026-02-08T15:48:51.824Z

Link: CVE-2026-2219

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-07T09:16:07.823

Modified: 2026-03-07T10:16:08.917

Link: CVE-2026-2219

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