CVE-2023-22895

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/crates/bzip2-rs product.

Affected products

Bzip2 Project Bzip2: before 0.4.4 — fixed in 0.4.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Bzip2 Project Bzip2 0.4.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://crates.io/crates/bzip2/versions
https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs/pull/86
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MI5SVRSGKBWB2JGDLDVIFY5ZQVDZP6I7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQK57GGXJX3AH7KF6S7S3N7JC5QOYUQ7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUK2JO25PPA6XBREKJRBLRCD22LKIOLO/
https://crates.io/crates/bzip2/versions
https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs/pull/86
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MI5SVRSGKBWB2JGDLDVIFY5ZQVDZP6I7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQK57GGXJX3AH7KF6S7S3N7JC5QOYUQ7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUK2JO25PPA6XBREKJRBLRCD22LKIOLO/

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