CVE-2009-1884

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.

Affected products

Bzip Compress-Raw-Bzip2: through 2.017; 2.0.00_10, 2.0.00_12, 2.0.00_14, 2.0.01, 2.0.02, 2.0.03 (+9)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36386
http://secunia.com/advisories/36415
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52628
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00999.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36386
http://secunia.com/advisories/36415
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml

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