CVE-2023-39743

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Aug 17, 2023
Updated: Aug 25, 2023

Summary

CVE-2023-39743 is a newly discovered vulnerability affecting the lrzip-next LZMA compression tool, version 23.01. This issue involves an access violation in the bz3_decode_block function located in src/libbz3.c, which could potentially be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Users are strongly encouraged to update their lrzip installations as soon as possible to mitigate this risk.

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