Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bzip2-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-BZIP2DEVEL-1390587
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed15 Nov 2024

Introduced: 26 Jul 2021

CVE-2019-12900  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bzip2-devel package and not the bzip2-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.

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