National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1372
Original release date:03/18/2008
Last revised:08/13/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/17/2008)
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Red Hat has re-evaluated the potential impact of this flaw and has released an update which corrects this behavior:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-218A
Name: TA09-218A
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#813451
Name: VU#813451
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-3037
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-2970
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=146488&action=view
External Source: XF
Name: bzip2-archives-code-execution(41249)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2172
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-590-1
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2008-098-02
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020867
External Source: BID
Name: 28286
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081203 VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080321 rPSA-2008-0118-1 bzip2
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0893
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:075
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200804-02
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2557
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0915
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.bzip.org/CHANGES
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0118
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 241786
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200903-40
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36096
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31878
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31869
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31204
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29940
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29698
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29677
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29656
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29506
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29497
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29475
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29410
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:011
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2009-08-05-1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007504
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007198
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006982
External Source: NETBSD
Name: NetBSD-SA2008-004