CVE-2008-1372 Information

Description

bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Reference

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006982 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007198 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007504 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29410 http://secunia.com/advisories/29475 http://secunia.com/advisories/29497 http://secunia.com/advisories/29506 http://secunia.com/advisories/29656 http://secunia.com/advisories/29677 http://secunia.com/advisories/29698 http://secunia.com/advisories/29940 http://secunia.com/advisories/31204 http://secunia.com/advisories/31869 http://secunia.com/advisories/31878 http://secunia.com/advisories/36096 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241786-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0118 http://www.bzip.org/CHANGES http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/ http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/813451 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:075 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489968/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28286 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020867 http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.473263 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0915 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2557 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172 https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=146488&action=view https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41249 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10067 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6467 https://usn.ubuntu.com/590-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00165.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00225.html