Description
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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
bzip2 bzip2
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 1.0.8affected35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67unaffected