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CVSSv2

CVE-2005-1260

Published: 19/05/2005 Updated: 13/11/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

bzip2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").

Vulnerability Trend

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bzip bzip2

canonical ubuntu linux 4.10

canonical ubuntu linux 5.04

debian debian linux 3.0

debian debian linux 3.1

apple mac os x

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis bzip2 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic Updated bzip2 packages that fix multiple issues are now availableThis update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red HatSecurity Response Team[Updated 13 February 2006]Replacement bzip2 packages for Red Hat Enterpris ...
Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in the file permission restore code of bunzip2 While a user was decompressing a file, a local attacker with write permissions in the directory of that file could replace the target file with a hard link This would cause bzip2 to restore the file permissions to the hard link target instead of to the bzip2 ou ...