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Ubuntu: USN-4038-4: bzip2 regression

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Ubuntu: USN-4038-4: bzip2 regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/04/2019
Created
07/06/2019
Added
07/05/2019
Modified
08/05/2020

Description

USN-4038-1 fixed a vulnerability in bzip2. The update introduced a regression causing bzip2 to incorrect raises CRC errors for some files. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM.

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Original advisory details:

It was discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Solution(s)

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

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