Bug 518278 (CVE-2009-1884)

Summary:	CVE-2009-1884 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function - DoS (crash)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mmaslano
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-08-19 17:40:43 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-1884 to
the following vulnerability:

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:
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1884
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-08-19 17:42:18 UTC

This issue affects the versions of perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 10 and 11.

This issue affects the versions of perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 package,
as shipped within Extra Packages for Enteprise Linux 5 (EPEL-5) project.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-08-20 07:45:08 UTC

perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.fc11

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-08-20 07:46:01 UTC

perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.fc10

Comment 4 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-08-20 07:48:04 UTC

Update to the Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020 for all mentioned branches.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-08-22 01:02:41 UTC

perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-08-22 01:06:58 UTC

perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.