vulnerability

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 30, 2016
Added
Jun 26, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Aladdin Mubaied discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-3189)

It was discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-12900)

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-bzip2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32bz2-1-0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64bz2-1-0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libbz2-1-0
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