ubuntu-cve-2023-22895
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-01-10 01:15
Modified
2026-05-20 15:02
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2+futures-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.3-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2+tokio-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.3-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2+tokio-io-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.3-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.3-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:20.04:LTS",
        "name": "rust-bzip2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-bzip2@0.3.3-1?arch=source\u0026distro=focal"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.3.3-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.4.1-2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "rust-bzip2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-bzip2@0.4.1-2?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.4.1-1",
        "0.4.1-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.4.4-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "rust-bzip2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-bzip2@0.4.4-1?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
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            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
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        "0.4.4-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.4.4-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10",
        "name": "rust-bzip2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-bzip2@0.4.4-1?arch=source\u0026distro=questing"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.4.4-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "librust-bzip2-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.6.1-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS",
        "name": "rust-bzip2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-bzip2@0.6.1-1?arch=source\u0026distro=resolute"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.4.4-1",
        "0.6.1-1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22895",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:02:26Z",
  "published": "2023-01-10T01:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-22895"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs/pull/86"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs/commit/90c9c182cd5a5ebc75810aebd89b347a7bdf590b"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/bzip2/versions"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22895"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-22895"
  ]
}



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