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rust-bzip2 — security advisory
The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/crates/bzip2-rs product.
- Products
- rust-bzip2
- Affected versions
- 0.3.3-1, 0.4.1-1, 0.4.1-2, 0.4.4-1, 0.6.1-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-22895
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/crates/bzip2-rs product.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22895
rust-bzip2
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rust-bzip2
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rust-bzip2
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rust-bzip2
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rust-bzip2
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rust-bzip2
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Complete source record
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