Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 6, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-29420
CVE-2023-29420
Description
An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 before 1.2.3. There is a crash caused by an invalid memmove in bz3_decode_block.
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3Patches
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References
6- github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/commit/bb06deb85f1c249838eb938e0dab271d4194f8fanvdPatch
- github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/issues/92nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/compare/1.2.2...1.2.3nvdRelease Notes
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4JLSE25SV7K2NB6FTFT4UHJOJUHBHYHY/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NA7S7HDUAINOTCSWQZ5LIW756DYY22V2/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NMLFV2FJK3CM7NJLVPZI5RUAFQZICPWW/nvd
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