CVE-2026-42250
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility
Published: 2026-05-28 · Last updated: 2026-06-05
Severity and scoring
- CWE
- CWE-787
Description
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, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service). This issue was fixed in bzip2 patch 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42250
- [Other]https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250/
- [Other]https://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/20260528145407.293768-1-mark@klomp.org/
- [Other]https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
- [Other]https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
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