vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-3189)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 30, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in bzip2recover, leading to a null pointer dereference, or a write to a closed file descriptor. An attacker could use this flaw by sending a specially crafted bzip2 file to recover and force the program to crash.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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