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bzip2 Decompression Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15447
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Release Date:
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2005-05-23
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Last Update:
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2005-05-26
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Popularity:
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8,251 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | bzip2 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-1260
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Description:
Chris Evans has reported a vulnerability in bzip2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of specially crafted bzip2 archives and can be exploited as a so-called "decompression bomb" to consume a large amount of disk space and CPU resources.
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.3.
http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Chris Evans
Changelog:
2005-05-26: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Chris Evans:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-002.txt
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