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CentOS 9 : bzip2-1.0.8-10.el9

critical Nessus Plugin ID 241518

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for bzip2.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the bzip2-1.0.8-10.el9 build changelog.

 - BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors. (CVE-2019-12900)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the CentOS 9 Stream bzip2 package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=73428

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 241518

File Name: centos9_bzip2-1_0_8-10_73428.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bzip2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bzip2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bzip2-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bzip2-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12900

IAVA: 2020-A-0482