CVE-2016-3189

MEDIUM

Bzip2 < 3.7.13 - Use After Free

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (25)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153644/Slackware-Security-Advisory-bzip2-Updates.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153957/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-18.bzip2.html

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/1

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91297

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036132

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319648

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19b4a70ac52093115fd71d773a7a4f579599e6275a13cfcf6252c3e3%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1dc4c9b3bd559301bdb1557245f78b8910146efb1ee534b774c5f6af%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r481cda41fefb03e04c51484ed14421d812e5ce9e0972edff10f37260%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ad2ea01354e394b7fa8c78a184b7e1634d51be9bc0e9e4d7e6c9305%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f7ac2bd631ccb12ced65b71ff11f94e76d05b22000795e4a7b61203%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00021.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/4

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/22

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2.asc

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-08

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4038-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4038-2/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

... and 5 more

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.2371

EPSS Percentile 95.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-416

Status draft

Affected Products (2)

bzip/bzip2

python/python < 3.7.13

Timeline

Published Jun 30, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026