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CVE-2008-1372

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-03-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Bzip2: 0.9, 0.9.5a, 0.9.5b, 0.9.5c, 0.9.5d, 0.9_a (+6)

References

• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006982
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007198
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007504
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29410
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29475
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29497
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29506
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29656
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29677

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