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Unscored USN-4038-3 0 CVEs

bzip2 regression

Published Jul 4, 2019 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

USN-4038-1 fixed a vulnerability in bzip2. The update introduced a regression causing
bzip2 to incorrect raises CRC errors for some files.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS bzip2 1.0.6-8ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS bzip2 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1834494