Advisories:rPSA-2008-0118
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rPath Security Advisory 2008-0118-1
Published: 2008-03-21
Products
- rPath Linux 1
- rPath Appliance Platform Linux Service 1
Rating
- Minor
Exposure Level Classification
- Indirect Deterministic Denial of Service
Updated Versions
- bzip2=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1/1.0.4-1.1-1
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Description
- Previous versions of the bzip2 package are vulnerable to a Denial
- of Service in which an attacker can provide a malformed archive
- file that will cause applications such as bunzip2 reading the file
- to crash. It has not been determined that this vulnerability can
- be exploited to execute malicious code.
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