CVE-2016-3189

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

30/06/2016

Last modified:

09/06/2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of the block.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.7.0 (including)	3.7.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.8.0 (including)	3.8.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.9.0 (including)	3.9.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.10.0 (including)	3.10.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2016-3189

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools