CVE-2005-1260
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").
02 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").
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-05-19 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-04-25
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ad8ffd7cdc21fe7d04187ccb87eb5c1f6489e11d23467eb402df0f8e5023632b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.fedoralegacy.orgFLSA:158801http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-127-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/127-1/
- www.securityfocus.com13657http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13657
- www.debian.orgDSA-741http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741
- www.securityfocus.com26444http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
- secunia.com15447http://secunia.com/advisories/15447
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10700https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10700
- secunia.com27274http://secunia.com/advisories/27274
- sunsolve.sun.com200191http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:749https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A749
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2007-11-14http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
- docs.info.apple.comhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3525http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3868http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868
- patches.sgi.com20060301-01-Uftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc
- secunia.com27643http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
- secunia.com19183http://secunia.com/advisories/19183
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:474http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html
- www.us-cert.govTA07-319Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
- sunsolve.sun.com103118http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- bzip2 Fixed in 1.0.2-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- bzip2 Fixed in 1.0.2-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- bzip2 Fixed in 1.0.2-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.