VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-1884

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.59%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-08-19
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

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