Vulnerability CVE-2009-1884
Published: 2009-08-19   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
BZIP -> Compress-raw-bzip2 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00999.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/52628
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/36415
http://secunia.com/advisories/36386
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