Medium
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-3189
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:45 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:CVE-2016-3189
Complete source record
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