CVE-2010-0405

Summary

CVECVE-2010-0405
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-09-28 18:00:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the BZ2_decompress function in decompress.c in bzip2 and libbzip2 before 1.0.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted compressed file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0a All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0b All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0c All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5a All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5b All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5c All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5d All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5_a All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5_b All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5_c All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5_d All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9_a All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9_b All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9_c All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0.1 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0.2 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0.3 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0.4 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 All All All All
Application Libzip2 Libzip2 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
VMware ESX Console OS (COS) Update for bzip2 - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
627882 – (CVE-2010-0405) CVE-2010-0405 bzip2: integer overflow flaw in BZ2_decompress af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:018 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
USN-986-3: dpkg vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
VMware ESX Console OS (COS) bzip2 Integer Overflow Vulnerability - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- bzip2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc12 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
APPLE-SA-2011-03-21-1 Mac OS X v10.6.7 and Security Update 2011-001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Oracle Solaris bzip2 "BZ_decompress" Integer Overflow Vulnerability - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
VMSA-2010-0019.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.sun.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: clamav-0.96.4-1300.fc13 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
'[oss-security] bzip2 CVE-2010-0405 integer overflow' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
CVE-2010-0405: bzip2 Integer Overflow « xorl %eax, %eax af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xorl.wordpress.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wwws.clamav.net
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
git.clamav.net/gitweb af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.clamav.net
bzip2 : Home af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.bzip.org
USN-986-2: ClamAV vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-986-1: bzip2 vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
About the security content of Mac OS X v10.6.7 and Security Update 2011-001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wwws.clamav.net
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Ubuntu update for clamav - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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