>> Bzip2 Archive Processing Client-Side Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Bzip2 Archive Processing Client-Side Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0915 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1372
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-03-18
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Bzip2, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing malformed archives, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application via a specially crafted archive.
