CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-42250
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-05-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250/ cert.pl
- https://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/[email protected]/ inbox.sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/bzip2/ sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67 sourceware.org