Bzip2

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Bzip2, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 12 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Bzip2.

• BDU:2026-06218Уязвимость утилиты для сжатия данных Bzip2, связанная с ошибками разыменования указателя, позволяющая нарушителю вызвать отказ в обслуживании5.5May 4, 2026
• CVE-2023-22895The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/cra...7.5Jan 10, 2023
• CVE-2019-12900BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.9.8Jun 19, 2019
• CVE-2016-3189Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of t...6.5Jun 30, 2016
• CVE-2011-4089The bzexe command in bzip2 1.0.5 and earlier generates compressed executables that do not properly handle temporary files during extraction, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by pr...4.6Apr 16, 2014
• CVE-2010-0405Integer 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 ex...5.1Sep 28, 2010
• CVE-2008-1372bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME te...4.3Mar 18, 2008
• CVE-2005-1260bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").5.0May 19, 2005
• CVE-2005-0953Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed ...3.7Apr 3, 2005
• CVE-2002-0761bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly systems, uses the permissions of symbolic links instead of the actual files when creating an archive, which coul...2.1Apr 2, 2003
• CVE-2002-0759bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, does not use the O_EXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn the...5.0Apr 2, 2003
• CVE-2002-0760Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, decompresses files with world-readable permissions before setting the...1.2Apr 2, 2003