CVE-2009-1884 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-1884

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

compress-raw-bzip2
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.0.00_10, 2.0.00_12, 2.0.00_14, 2.0.01, 2.0.02, 2.0.03, 2.0.05, 2.0.06, 2.0.08, 2.0.09, 2.010, 2.011, 2.012, 2.014, 2.015

Timeline

Official Publish: August 19th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.