CVE-2008-1372

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-03-18
Bugzilla:
438118: CVE-2008-1372 bzip2: crash on malformed archive file

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1372 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat has re-evaluated the potential impact of this flaw and has released an update which corrects this behavior:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (bzip2) RHSA-2008:0893 2008-09-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (bzip2) RHSA-2008:0893 2008-09-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (bzip2) RHSA-2008:0893 2008-09-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (bzip2) RHSA-2008:0893 2008-09-16

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