CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-1260
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").
Affected configurations
• bzip bzip2 (< 1.0.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 4.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 5.04
• debian debian linux 3.0
• debian debian linux 3.1
• apple mac os x (< 10.4.11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc Broken Link
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 Broken Link
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15447 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27274 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 Third Party Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 Broken Link
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html Permissions Required
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13657 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 Permissions Required
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10700 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A749 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/127-1/ Third Party Advisory
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc Broken Link
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 Broken Link
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15447 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27274 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 Third Party Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 Broken Link
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html Permissions Required
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13657 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 Permissions Required
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10700 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A749 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/127-1/ Third Party Advisory