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Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks --> Category: infos

USN127-1 : bzip2 vulnerabilities Vulnerability Scan


Vulnerability Scan Summary
bzip2 vulnerabilities

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test

Synopsis :

These remote packages are missing security patches :
- bzip2
- libbz2-1.0
- libbz2-dev


Description :

Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in the file permission restore
code of bunzip2. While a user was decompressing a file, a local
attacker with write permissions in the directory of that file could
replace the target file with a hard link. This would cause bzip2 to
restore the file permissions to the hard link target instead of to the
bzip2 output file, which could be exploited to gain read or even write
access to files of other users. (CVE-2005-0953)

Specially crafted bzip2 archives caused an infinite loop in the
decompressor which resulted in an indefinitively large output file
("decompression bomb"). This could be exploited to a Denial of Service
attack due to disk space exhaustion on systems which automatically
process user supplied bzip2 compressed files. (CVE-2005-1260)

Solution :

Upgrade to :
- bzip2-1.0.2-2ubuntu0.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- libbz2-1.0-1.0.2-2ubuntu0.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- libbz2-dev-1.0.2-2ubuntu0.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)



Threat Level: High


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