WID-SEC-W-2026-1729

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bzip2: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service

view advisory published 2026-05-28

Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in bzip2 ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

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CVE-2026-42250US——
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, result…
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