CVE-2019-12900
out-of-bounds write when there are many bzip2 selectors
4.0
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
Description
BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.
How to fix CVE-2019-12900
To remediate CVE-2019-12900, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/bzip2—upgrade to 1.0.6-r7 or later
- Debian/bzip2—upgrade to 1.0.6-9.1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.101.4+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.1.1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.5.2.0 or later
- —upgrade to 0.3.0.3 or later
Is CVE-2019-12900 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (6)
- from 0, < 1.0.6-r7
- from 0, < 1.0.6-9.1
- from 0, < 0.101.4+dfsg-1
- >= 0.1.0.0, < 1.0.1.1
- >= 0.4, < 0.5.2.0
- >= 0.1.0.0, < 0.3.0.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |