CVE-2008-1372
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 4.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.5% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1379)
- Published
- March 18, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1379 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
- bzip / bzip2
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc
- 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
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29698
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29940
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31204
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31878
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241786-1
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0118
- http://www.bzip.org/CHANGES
- http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
- http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml
- http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/813451(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:075
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489968/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28286(Exploit)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020867
- http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.473263
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0915
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2557
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=146488&action=view
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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