Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New bzip2 packages prevent decompression bomb |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-741 | First vendor Publication | 2005-07-07 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2005-07-07 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Chris Evans discovered that a specially crafted archive can trigger an infinete loop in bzip2, a high-quality block-sorting file compressor. During uncompression this results in an indefinitively growing output file which will finally fill up the disk and. On systems that automatically decompress bzip2 archives this can cause a denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1.woody5. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-7. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-7. We recommend that you upgrade your bzip2 package. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-400 | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10700 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10700 | ||
| Title: | bzip2 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"). | ||
| Description: | bzip2 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"). | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2005-1260 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CentOS Linux 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CentOS Linux 4 Oracle Linux 4 | Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:749 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:749 | ||
| Title: | bzip2 Decompression Bomb | ||
| Description: | bzip2 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"). | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2005-1260 | Version: | 1 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Product(s): | bzip2 |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-11-17 | Name : Mac OS X Version File : nvt/macosx_version.nasl |
| 2009-10-10 | Name : SLES9: Security update for bzip2 File : nvt/sles9p5010943.nasl |
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: bzip2 File : nvt/freebsd_bzip2.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 741-1 (bzip2) File : nvt/deb_741_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 16767 | bzip2 Malformed Archive Decompression DoS bzip2 contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered due to the handling of malformed bzip2 archives. It is possible for a remote attacker to send a malformed archive, which will cause the application to go into an infinite loop and consume a large amount of disk space and CPU resources, resulting in a loss of availability. |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-09-24 | Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse9_10057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-11-14 | Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update which fixes a security issue. File : macosx_10_4_11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-07-03 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2005-474.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-01-15 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-127-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-07-13 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_197f444fe8ef11d9b8750001020eed82.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-07-08 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-741.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-06-17 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2005-474.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-05-19 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:34:06 |
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