CVE-2008-1372: Bzip BZIP2

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Affected products

• Bzip BZIP2: version 0.9 only; version 0.9.5a only; version 0.9.5b only; version 0.9.5c only; version 0.9.5d only; version 0.9_a only; …

Published 2008-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.