Critical
Security advisory
BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12900
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.
osv:CVE-2019-12900
Complete source record
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