Vulnerability · Published Jul 26, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-33451
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the lrzip package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 74.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in lrzip version 0.641. There are memory leaks in fill_buffer() in stream.c.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | lrzip | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Debian:13 | lrzip | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Debian:14 | lrzip | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | lrzip | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | lrzip | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | lrzip | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | lrzip | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33451 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | lrzip | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33451 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/issues/198 x_refsource_MISC
- https://gist.github.com/Clingto/bb632c0c463f4b2c97e4f65f751c5e6d x_refsource_MISC