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").
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2005-05-19T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:44:05.883Z

Reserved: 2005-04-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-1260

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2005-05-19T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2020-11-13T17:07:19.770

Link: CVE-2005-1260

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-02-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-1260 - Bugzilla