Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published May 28, 2026· Updated Jun 5, 2026
CVE-2026-42250
CVE-2026-42250
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
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