Scientific Linux: 2008-09-16 Moderate: bzip2 Buffer Over-Read Issue

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:13:48 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for bzip2 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: bzip2 security update
Issue date:	2008-09-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1372

A buffer over-read flaw was discovered in the bzip2 decompression routine.
This issue could cause an application linked against the libbz2 library to
crash when decompressing malformed archives. (CVE-2008-1372)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.src.rpm
 i386:
bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
bzip2-1.0.2-12.EL3.x86_64.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.2-12.EL3.x86_64.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-12.EL3.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-12.EL3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
bzip2-1.0.2-14.el4_7.src.rpm
 i386:
bzip2-1.0.2-14.el4_7.i386.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-14.el4_7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
bzip2-1.0.2-14.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.i386.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-14.el4_7.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-14.el4_7.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
bzip2-1.0.3-4.el5_2.src.rpm
 i386:
bzip2-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
bzip2-1.0.3-4.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.3-4.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson