CVE-2009-1884
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
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.
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-189
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1879)
- Published
- August 19, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1879 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- bzip / compress-raw-bzip2
- perl / perl
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36386(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36415
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082(Patch)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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