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FreeBSD Ports: bzip2

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: bzip2 CVE-2008-1372 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.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/ http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/063399fc-f6d6-11dc-bcee-001c2514716c.html

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