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USN-986-1: bzip2 vulnerability

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USN-986-1: bzip2 vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/28/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Integer overflow in the BZ2_decompress function in decompress.c in bzip2 and libbzip2 before 1.0.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted compressed file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bzip2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libbz2-1-0

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