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CVE-2026-42250

N/A CVSS: N/A Published: 2026-05-28 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References