DEBIAN-CVE-2026-117556: Medium severity debian/zchunk vulnerability

Published Oct 27, 2026
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Updated

zchunk before 1.5.5 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in readpreface() in src/lib/header.c that passes the total header length instead of remaining bytes to compint parsing functions. Attackers can supply a crafted .zck file whose header ends inside a compressed integer, causing reads past the heap header buffer and crashing the application.

Affected Software

3 affected components
debian/zchunk*
debian/zchunk*
debian/zchunk*

Event History

Oct 27, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·02:16 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·02:16 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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