Medium
bzip3 — security advisory
An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 1.2.2. There is a bz3_decompress out-of-bounds read in certain situations where buffers passed to bzip3 do not contain enough space to be filled with decompressed data. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that the observed behavior can only occur for a contract violation, and thus the report is invalid.
- Products
- bzip3
- Affected versions
- 1.2.2-2, 1.2.3-1, 1.3.1-1, 1.3.2-1, 1.4.0-1, 1.5.1-1, 1.5.2-1, 1.5.3-1, 1.5.3-2, 1.5.4-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-29417
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 1.2.2. There is a bz3_decompress out-of-bounds read in certain situations where buffers passed to bzip3 do not contain enough space to be filled with decompressed data. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that the observed behavior can only occur for a contract violation, and thus the report is invalid.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29417
bzip3
Fixed versions: Not specified
bzip3
Fixed versions: Not specified
bzip3
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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