CVE-2025-31115

Publication date 3 April 2025

Last updated 3 April 2025


Ubuntu priority

The threaded .xz decoder in liblzma has a bug that can at least result in a crash (denial of service). The effects include heap use after free and writing to an address based on the null pointer plus an offset.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xz-utils 24.10 oracular
Fixed 5.6.2-2ubuntu0.2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


mdeslaur

per upstream, affects 5.3.3alpha to 5.8.0

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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