CVE-2016-3189
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Use-after-free
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of the block.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)16%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153644/Slackware-Security-Advisory-bzip2-Updates.htmlAdvisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153957/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-18.bzip2.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/1
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91297Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036132Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319648Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19b4a70ac52093115fd71d773a7a4f579599e6275a13cfcf6252c3e3%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E