Description (CNA)
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service). This issue was fixed in bzip2 patch 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| bzip2 / bzip2 | affected 0 through 1.0.8; unaffected 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67 |
CWE
CWE-787
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250/
- https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
- https://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/20260528145407.293768-1-mark@klomp.org/
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
ADP enrichment
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