CVE-2026-42250 — Off-by-One Leading to Out-of-Bounds Write in bzip2
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, res…
Published: 2026-05-28 · CVSS: 4.8 · CVSS 4.0
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service). This issue was fixed in bzip2 patch 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7