USN-4038-1

Aladdin Mubaied discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-3189)

It was discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12900)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / bzip2

Package

Name: bzip2
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/bzip2@1.0.6-8ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.0.6-8ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.6-8

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "bzip2",
            "binary_version": "1.0.6-8ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libbz2-1.0",
            "binary_version": "1.0.6-8ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libbz2-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.6-8ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / bzip2

Package

Name: bzip2
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/bzip2@1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.6-8.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "bzip2",
            "binary_version": "1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libbz2-1.0",
            "binary_version": "1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libbz2-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}