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libzstd — security advisory
Beginning in v1.4.1 and prior to v1.4.9, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-24031, the Zstandard command-line utility created output files with default permissions and restricted those permissions immediately afterwards. Output files could therefore momentarily be readable or writable to unintended parties.
- Products
- libzstd
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.8+dfsg-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-24032
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Beginning in v1.4.1 and prior to v1.4.9, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-24031, the Zstandard command-line utility created output files with default permissions and restricted those permissions immediately afterwards. Output files could therefore momentarily be readable or writable to unintended parties.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-24032
libzstd
Fixed versions: 1.4.8+dfsg-2
libzstd
Fixed versions: 1.4.8+dfsg-2
libzstd
Fixed versions: 1.4.8+dfsg-2
Complete source record
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