CVE-2025-31115 log

Source
Severity Medium
Remote No
Type Denial of service
Description
In XZ Utils 5.3.3alpha to 5.8.0, the multithreaded .xz decoder in liblzma has a bug where invalid input can at least result in a crash. The effects include heap use after free and writing to an address based on the null pointer plus an offset. Applications and libraries that use the lzma_stream_decoder_mt function are affected. The bug has been fixed in XZ Utils 5.8.1, and the fix has been committed to the v5.4, v5.6, v5.8, and master branches in the xz Git repository.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-2861 lib32-xz 5.8.0-1 5.8.1-1 Medium Fixed
AVG-2860 xz 5.8.0-1 5.8.1-1 Medium Fixed
References
https://tukaani.org/xz/threaded-decoder-early-free.html
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-6cc8-p5mm-29w2
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/d5a2ffe41bb77b918a8c96084885d4dbe4bf6480
https://tukaani.org/xz/xz-cve-2025-31115.patch