Use-after-free memory corruption in bzip2recover in bzip2 - CVE-2016-3189
Published: June 21, 2016 / Updated: July 8, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3189
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: bzip
Affected software:
bzip2
bzip2
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause the target application to crash.
The vulnerability exists due to an use-after-free error in bzip2recover when handling bzip2 files. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted bzip2 archive and cause the target application to crash.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will result in denial of service.