PT-2005-2267 · Bzip2+1 · Bzip2+1

Chris Evans · Published 2005-05-19 · Updated 2020-11-13 · CVE-2005-1260

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: bzip2 (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically hard drive consumption, by using a crafted bzip2 file. This crafted file causes an infinite loop, also referred to as a "decompression bomb".

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1260

DSA-741-1

RHSA-2005:474

RHSA-2005_474

Affected Products

Red Hat

Bzip2

References · 28

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1260 · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-1260 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 · Vendor Advisory
• http://fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/127-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1260 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1260 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0758.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13657 · Note