bzip2 Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories

bzip2 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA29410
Release Date:	2008-03-24
Last Update:	2008-03-25

Critical:	Less critical
Impact:	DoS
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	bzip2 1.x

CVE reference:	CVE-2008-1372 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in bzip2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of malformed archives and can potentially be exploited to cause a DoS. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.0.5. Solution: Update to version 1.0.5. http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html Provided and/or discovered by: Oulu University Secure Programming Group Changelog: 2008-03-24: Added CVE reference. 2008-03-25: Updates "Description" and "Criticality". Original Advisory: http://www.bzip.org/CHANGES http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/ Other References: https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html



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