FKIE_CVE-2026-42250

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-28 14:16 - Updated: 2026-05-28 18:16
Severity
5.1 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
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
References
cvd@cert.plhttps://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250/
cvd@cert.plhttps://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/20260528145407.293768-1-mark@klomp.org/
cvd@cert.plhttps://sourceware.org/bzip2/
cvd@cert.plhttps://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-42250",
  "lastModified": "2026-05-28T18:16:32.577",
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          "modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
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    {
      "source": "cvd@cert.pl",
      "url": "https://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/20260528145407.293768-1-mark@klomp.org/"
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