CVE-2009-1884

high

Description

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00999.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52628

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/36415

http://secunia.com/advisories/36386

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-08-19

Updated: 2023-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High