Medium 4.8Published May 28, 2026

CVE-2026-42250bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:25 UTC)

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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

CVSS: 4.8 MEDIUM (v4.0, NVD)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weakness (CWE): CWE-787
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

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References

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250/
https://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/20260528145407.293768-1-mark@klomp.org/
https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67

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