Numeric Errors Affecting bzip2 package, versions <1.0.5-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    2.72% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-BZIP2-284301
  • published 28 Sep 2010
  • disclosed 28 Sep 2010

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 bzip2 to version 1.0.5-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bzip2 package and not the bzip2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer overflow in the BZ2_decompress function in decompress.c in bzip2 and libbzip2 before 1.0.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted compressed file.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

5.6 medium