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Bug 903758 (CVE-2022-4899)

Summary: <app-arch/zstd-1.5.4: buffer overrun in CLI
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: John Helmert III <ajak>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: base-system
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/3200
Whiteboard: B4 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-04-04 04:30:03 UTC
CVE-2022-4899:

A vulnerability was found in zstd v1.4.10, where an attacker can supply empty string as an argument to the command line tool to cause buffer overrun.

Practically unexploitable, but useful to have a bug should anyone come
looking anyways.