CVE-2017-18258

Publication date

2018-04-08 17:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file.