Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-42250
* SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds read and write in bzip2recover when a .bz2 file yields more than BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS block boundaries (ELSCVE-178967) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-42250.patch: correct the off-by-one in the block-count guard in bzip2recover.c, so the scanning loop stops one block earlier instead of indexing one past bStart, bEnd, rbStart and rbEnd. - CVE-2026-42250
- Products
- bzip2, bzip2-doc, libbz2-1.0, libbz2-dev
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2+tuxcare.els1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-42250
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
* SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds read and write in bzip2recover when a .bz2 file yields more than BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS block boundaries (ELSCVE-178967) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-42250.patch: correct the off-by-one in the block-count guard in bzip2recover.c, so the scanning loop stops one block earlier instead of indexing one past bStart, bEnd, rbStart and rbEnd. - CVE-2026-42250
osv:CLSA-2026-1788430930
bzip2
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2+tuxcare.els1
bzip2-doc
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2+tuxcare.els1
libbz2-1.0
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2+tuxcare.els1
libbz2-dev
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2+tuxcare.els1
Complete source record
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"summary": "* SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds read and write in bzip2recover when a .bz2 file yields more than BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS block boundaries (ELSCVE-178967) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-42250.patch: correct the off-by-one in the block-count guard in bzip2recover.c, so the scanning loop stops one block earlier instead of indexing one past bStart, bEnd, rbStart and rbEnd. - CVE-2026-42250",
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