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bzip2 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- bzip2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.6-8.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-3189
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3189
bzip2
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1
bzip2
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1
bzip2
Fixed versions: 1.0.6-8.1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 316287,
"published_at": "2016-06-30T17:59:01.47+00:00"
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