CVE-2026-41992

A flaw was found in GNU gzip. This global buffer overflow vulnerability in the LZH decompression logic is caused by improper reuse of shared global state between different decompression formats. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted LZW file followed by a specially crafted LZH file to the gzip -d command. This can lead to an out-of-bounds read, potentially resulting in information disclosure.

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