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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-3189): bzip2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-3189): bzip2 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/30/2016
Created
06/28/2019
Added
06/26/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bzip2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-lib32bz2-1-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-lib64bz2-1-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libbz2-1-0

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