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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-3189

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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CVE-2016-3189

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Jun 2016, 17:59 UTC

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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