Bug 157548 - CAN-2005-1260 bzip2 decompression bomb (DoS)
Summary: CAN-2005-1260 bzip2 decompression bomb (DoS)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bzip2
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Jiri Ryska
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20050215,source=ven...
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-12 16:11 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-474
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-02-13 15:18:36 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Upstream fixes (11.82 KB, patch)
2005-05-12 16:15 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details | Diff
Demo Exploit (1.90 KB, application/x-bzip)
2005-06-03 14:43 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:474 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: bzip2 security update 2005-06-16 04:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-05-12 16:11:51 UTC 
Chris Evans discovered a denial of service issue in bzip2.

http://scary.beasts.org/security/d5d5466da311d907/CESA-2005-002.txt

This issue has been fixed in bzip2 1.0.3, but it's not well known yet.  I'm
going to keep this bug private until chris makes his advisory public.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-05-12 16:13:20 UTC 
This issue also affects RHEL2.1 and RHEL3
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-05-12 16:15:17 UTC 
Created attachment 114301 [details]
Upstream fixes

This patch contains the important bits between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3.
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-06-03 14:43:57 UTC 
Created attachment 115129 [details]
Demo Exploit
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-06-03 16:41:06 UTC 
This is no longer embargoed.
Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2005-06-16 17:58:56 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-13 15:18:37 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html
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