USN-590-1: bzip2 vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• bzip2 -

Details

It was discovered that bzip2 did not correctly handle certain malformed
archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing
a specially crafted bzip2 archive, applications linked against libbz2
could be made to crash, possibly leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• libbz2-1.0 - 1.0.4-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• libbz2-1.0 - 1.0.3-6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• libbz2-1.0 - 1.0.3-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libbz2-1.0 - 1.0.3-0ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-1372