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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.
Critical9.8EPSS 8.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.0% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (25)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190624 [SECURITY] [DLA 1833-1] bzip2 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-4038-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-4038-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 20190715 [slackware-security] bzip2 (SSA:2019-195-01) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190718 [SECURITY] [DLA 1833-2] bzip2 regression update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1781 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-19:18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- 20190806 FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1918 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-4146-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-4146-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20191010 [SECURITY] [DLA 1953-1] clamav security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20191014 [SECURITY] [DLA 1953-2] clamav regression update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2595 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2597 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [kafka-users] 20200413 CVEs for the dependency software guava and rocksdbjni of Kafka (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153644/Slackware-Security-Advisory-bzip2-Updates.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153957/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-18.bzip2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://gitlab.com/federicomenaquintero/bzip2/commit/74de1e2e6ffc9d51ef9824db71a8ffee5962cdbc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K68713584?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [flink-user] 20210716 Flink 1.13.1 - Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-12900 for librocksdbjni (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-user] 20210717 Re: Flink 1.13.1 - Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-12900 for librocksdbjni (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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