CVE-2009-1884 Information

Description

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/36386 http://secunia.com/advisories/36415 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52628 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00999.html