CVE-2009-1884
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · CWE-189
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36386Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36415
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52628
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html