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TITLE:
bzip2 Decompression Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15447

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
bzip2 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5138/

DESCRIPTION:
Chris Evans has reported a vulnerability in bzip2, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
specially crafted bzip2 archives and can be exploited as a so-called
"decompression bomb" to consume a large amount of disk space and CPU
resources.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.3.
http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Evans

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Chris Evans:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-002.txt

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