bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file that triggers a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-1372 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.74%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-11-17 | 8.87% | 7.74% | -1.13% |
| 2 | 2025-10-07 | 7.48% | 8.87% | +1.39% |
| 3 | 2025-05-07 | — | 7.48% | — |
Full EPSS history (14 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
low | CVE-2008-1372 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (bzip2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1372 |
gentoo
|
normal | CVE-2008-1372: 2 GLSA(s) (200804-02, 200903-40), 2 atom(s) (app-admin/analog, app-arch/bzip2); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2008-1372 |
redhat
|
medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-1372 |
suse
|
medium | CVE-2008-1372 severity moderate: SUSE including 25 source package names (bzip2-1.0.5-34.246, bzip2-1.0.5-34.253.1, …), 35 product×package rows across 9 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, … (9 product lines)): Fixed 35. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-1372/ |
ubuntu
|
medium | CVE-2008-1372 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bzip2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, upstream): released 5. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-1372 |
Red Hat has re-evaluated the potential impact of this flaw and has released an update which corrects this behavior: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9 | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9.5a | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9.5b | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9.5c | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5c:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9.5d | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5d:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9_a | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9_a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9_b | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9_b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 0.9_c | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9_c:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 1.0.1 | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 1.0.2 | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bzip | bzip2 | 1.0.3 | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |