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HistoryJun 08, 2022 - 8:20 a.m.

Important: xz security update

2022-06-0808:20:11
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8.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.6%

XZ Utils is an integrated collection of user-space file compression utilities based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA), which performs lossless data compression. The algorithm provides a high compression ratio while keeping the decompression time short.

Security Fix(es):

  • gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.