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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1372 Detail

Current 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.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/17/2008)

Red Hat has re-evaluated the potential impact of this flaw and has released an update which corrects this behavior: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc CVE, MITRE
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006982 CVE, MITRE
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007198 CVE, MITRE
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007504 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29410 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29475 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29497 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29506 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29656 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29677 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29698 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29940 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31204 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31869 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31878 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/36096 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml CVE, MITRE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241786-1 CVE, MITRE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757 CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0118 CVE, MITRE
http://www.bzip.org/CHANGES CVE, MITRE
http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 CVE, MITRE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/813451 CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:075 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489968/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28286 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020867 CVE, MITRE
http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.473263 CVE, MITRE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0915 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2557 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172 CVE, MITRE
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=146488&action=view CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41249 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10067 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6467 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/590-1/ CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00165.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00225.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1372
NVD Published Date:
03/18/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE