CVE-2016-3189 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bzip2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-BZIP2-621607
  • published30 Jun 2016
  • disclosed30 Jun 2016

Introduced: 30 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-3189  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of the block.

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