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Fedora: 2009-8888 Moderate: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 DoS Threat

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw- Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8888 2009-08-22 00:06:26.425868 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 Product : Fedora 10 Version : 2.020 Release : 1.fc10 URL : https://metacpan.org/dist/Compress-Raw-Bzip2 Summary : Low-Level Interface to bzip2 compression library Description : This module provides a Perl interface to the bzip2 compression library. It is used by IO::Compress::Bzip2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw- Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Aug 20 2009 Marcela Mašláňová - 2.020-1 - 518278 CVE-2009-1884, update to the latest release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #518278 - CVE-2009-1884 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function - DoS (crash) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software withyum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . The recent update to perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 resolves a denial of service vulnerability stemming from an off-by-one mistake in Bzip2.xs, impacting users on Fedora 10.. Perl Software Update, Bzip2 DoS Fix, Fedora 10 Security Patch. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 21, 2009 •Important Fedora