CVE-2008-1372

bzip2: crash on malformed archive file

Published Mar 18, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 4.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-1379 bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-590-1 bzip2 vulnerability
References
Link Providers
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006982 cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007198 cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007504 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29410 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29475 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29497 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29506 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29656 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29677 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29698 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29940 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31204 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31869 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31878 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36096 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241786-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0118 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.bzip.org/CHANGES cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/813451 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:075 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489968/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28286 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020867 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.473263 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0915 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2557 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=146488&action=view cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41249 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1372 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10067 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6467 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/590-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1372 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00165.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00225.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:17 AM
Reserved
Mar 18, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 18, 2008, 9:44 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:51 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Mar 18, 2008, 12:00 AM