debian · CVE-2009-1884

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:01:28 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2009-1884 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.

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