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CVE-2026-42250 (GCVE-0-2026-42250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 13:15 – Updated: 2026-06-05 07:47 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
Off-by-One Leading to Out-of-Bounds Write in bzip2
Summary
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service). This issue was fixed in bzip2 patch 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-28 14:22 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
bzip2 bzip2 Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67 (custom)
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Credits
Michał Majchrowicz (AFINE Team) Marcin Wyczechowski (AFINE Team)
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