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CVE-2010-0405

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the BZ2_decompress function in decompress.c in bzip2 and libbzip2 before 1.0.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted compressed file.

Affected products

• Bzip2: through 1.0.5; 0.9, 0.9.0, 0.9.0a, 0.9.0b, 0.9.0c, 0.9.5_a (+15)
• Libzip2: through 1.0.5

References

• http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0405_integer_overflow
• http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=ChangeLog%3Bhb=clamav-0.96.3
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051278.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051366.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128506868510655&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41452
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41505
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42350
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42404
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42405

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