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12 Sep 2008 Sun Alert 241786 A Security Vulnerability in the bzip2(1) command may lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)
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Product: Solaris 8 Operating System Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System

A security vulnerability in the bzip2(1) command and libbz2(3) library shipped with Solaris may allow a local or remote unprivileged user who provides a specially crafted bzip2 archive to cause a program crash which is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

Additional information regarding this issue is available in the following document:

CVE-2008-1372 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1372

State: Resolved

First released: 12-Sep-2008

Sun Alert Link: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-241786-1

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