oss-security - bzip2 CVE-2010-0405 integer overflow

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:33:01 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: bzip2 CVE-2010-0405 integer overflow

Hi,

Here's some analysis of this vulnerability and the changes in 1.0.6:

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/cve-2010-0405-bzip2-integer-overflow/

No conclusion on whether it is exploitable or not (and in what cases),
yet maybe this will save someone a few minutes.

Alexander

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