CVE-2005-1260

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").

Affected products

macOS: before 10.4.11 — fixed in 10.4.11
Bzip2: before 1.0.3 — fixed in 1.0.3
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 4.10, 5.04
Debian Linux: 3.0, 3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: macOS 10.4.11; Bzip2 1.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/15447
http://secunia.com/advisories/19183
http://secunia.com/advisories/27274
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html

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