Bug 157059 - CAN-2005-1260 - bzip2 decompression bomb vulnerability
Summary: CAN-2005-1260 - bzip2 decompression bomb vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 158801
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Legacy
Classification: Retired
Component: bzip2
Version: fc1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Legacy Bugs
QA Contact:
URL: http://scary.beasts.org/security/d5d5...
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Depends On: 157057
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-06 15:17 UTC by Dominic Hargreaves
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-11-05 05:55:16 UTC
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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 ***
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