CVE-2016-3189 in bzip2

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 03/15/2016
• Disclosure: 06/30/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-88089 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-416 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.23714
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3189
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3189
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-3189/