Bug 157059

Summary: CAN-2005-1260 - bzip2 decompression bomb vulnerability
Product: [Retired] Fedora Legacy Reporter: Dominic Hargreaves <dom>
Component: bzip2Assignee: Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
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Version: fc1CC: jkeating, marc.deslauriers
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URL: http://scary.beasts.org/security/d5d5466da311d907/CESA-2005-002.txt
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Description Dominic Hargreaves 2005-05-06 15:17:14 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #157057 +++

Whilst playing with "random bitflipping" technology, an effective decompression
bomb attack against bzip2 was identified. bzip2 can be made to decompress
into a file indefinitely when it encounters a suitably corrupt bzip2 archive.

Demo bz2 archive:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/d5d5466da311d907/bomb.bz2

Fixed in 1.0.3.

No disclosure date yet.

Comment 1 David Eisenstein 2005-11-04 20:41:45 UTC
Removing security flag & This bug duplicates bug 158801.
Should be closed DUPLICATE.

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2005-11-05 05:55:16 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158801 ***