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High RLSA-2025:7524 1 CVE

Important: xz security update

Published Oct 3, 2025 · Updated Oct 8, 2025

Summary

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):

* xz: XZ has a heap-use-after-free bug in threaded .xz decoder (CVE-2025-31115)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 10 xz 1:5.6.2-4.el10_0

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.7

    XZ has a heap-use-after-free bug in threaded .xz decoder

    XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. 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 fre…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357249