CVE-2019-12900 Affecting bzip2-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.96% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-BZIP2LIBS-8311101
  • published31 Oct 2024
  • disclosed15 Nov 2024

Introduced: 31 Oct 2024

CVE-2019-12900  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1214  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 bzip2-libs.

NVD Description

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

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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