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BZIP2

13 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for BZIP2, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

BZIP2 CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
BZIP2 CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-100
2024-110
2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
2025-030
2025-040
2025-050
2025-060
2025-070
2025-080
2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-120
2026-010
2026-020
2026-030
2026-040
2026-052
2026-060
2026-070
2026-080
2026-090

Severity

How the 13 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical18%
  • High18%
  • Medium758%
  • Low325%

Latest CVEs

The 13 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting BZIP2.

  1. CVE-2026-42250Off-by-One Leading to Out-of-Bounds Write in bzip2—
  2. BDU:2026-06218Уязвимость утилиты для сжатия данных Bzip2, связанная с ошибками разыменования указателя, позволяющая нарушителю вызвать отказ в обслуживании5.5
  3. CVE-2023-22895The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/cra...7.5
  4. CVE-2019-12900BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.9.8
  5. CVE-2016-3189Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of t...6.5
  6. CVE-2011-4089The bzexe command in bzip2 1.0.5 and earlier generates compressed executables that do not properly handle temporary files during extraction, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by pr...4.6
  7. CVE-2010-0405Integer overflow in the BZ2_decompress function in decompress.c in bzip2 and libbzip2 before 1.0.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly ex...5.1
  8. CVE-2008-1372bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME te...4.3
  9. CVE-2005-1260bzip2 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").5.0
  10. CVE-2005-0953Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed ...3.7
  11. CVE-2002-0761bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly systems, uses the permissions of symbolic links instead of the actual files when creating an archive, which coul...2.1
  12. CVE-2002-0760Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, decompresses files with world-readable permissions before setting the...1.2
  13. CVE-2002-0759bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, does not use the O_EXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn the...5.0

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