INFSA-2025:0733: bzip2 security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:0733

Type: security

Release date: 2025-03-05 17:08:49 UTC

Information about package

The bzip2 packages contain a freely available, high-quality data compressor. It provides both standalone compression and decompression utilities, as well as a shared library for use with other programs.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2019-12900

    BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors. Bug Fix * Recent bzip2 RHEL8 update breaks data integrity tests.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 3.3 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages