CVE-2016-3189

bzip2: heap use after free in bzip2recover

Published Jun 30, 2016 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 15.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of the block.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1833-1 bzip2 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4038-1 bzip2 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4038-2 bzip2 vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153644/Slackware-Security-Advisory-bzip2-Updates.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153957/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-18.bzip2.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91297 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036132 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319648 cve-icon cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19b4a70ac52093115fd71d773a7a4f579599e6275a13cfcf6252c3e3%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1dc4c9b3bd559301bdb1557245f78b8910146efb1ee534b774c5f6af%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r481cda41fefb03e04c51484ed14421d812e5ce9e0972edff10f37260%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ad2ea01354e394b7fa8c78a184b7e1634d51be9bc0e9e4d7e6c9305%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f7ac2bd631ccb12ced65b71ff11f94e76d05b22000795e4a7b61203%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f80cf3ade5bb73410643e885fe6b7bf9f0222daf3533e42c7ae240c%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6e3962fc9f6a79851f70cffdec5759065969cec9c6708b964464b301%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra0adb9653c7de9539b93cc8434143b655f753b9f60580ff260becb2b%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/redf17d8ad16140733b25ca402ae825d6dfa9b85f73d9fb3fd0c75d73%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rffebcbeaace56ff1fed7916700d2f414ca1366386fb1293e99b3e31e%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3189 cve-icon
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/4 cve-icon cve-icon
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/22 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2.asc cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-08 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4038-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4038-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3189 cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Oct 14, 2026, 6:25 AM
Reserved
Mar 15, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 30, 2016, 5:59 PM
Modified
Oct 14, 2026, 7:16 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Jun 20, 2016, 12:00 AM