CVE-2016-3189
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Jun 30, 2016
- Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 15, 2016
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-416 Use After Free
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- [oss-security] 20160620 CVE-2016-3189: bzip2 use-after-free on bzip2recovermailing-list
- 1036132vdb-entry
- 91297vdb-entry
- GLSA-201708-08vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190624 [SECURITY] [DLA 1833-1] bzip2 security updatemailing-list
- USN-4038-2vendor-advisory
- USN-4038-1vendor-advisory
- 20190715 [slackware-security] bzip2 (SSA:2019-195-01)mailing-list
- FreeBSD-SA-19:18vendor-advisory
- 20190806 FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2mailing-list
- [kafka-dev] 20200413 [jira] [Created] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-jira] 20200413 [jira] [Created] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-jira] 20200413 [jira] [Updated] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-users] 20200413 CVEs for the dependency software guava and rocksdbjni of Kafkamailing-list
- [kafka-jira] 20200414 [jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319648
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153644/Slackware-Security-Advisory-bzip2-Updates.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153957/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-18.bzip2.html
- [kafka-jira] 20210729 [jira] [Comment Edited] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-jira] 20210729 [jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-jira] 20210729 [jira] [Resolved] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-dev] 20210729 [jira] [Resolved] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- [kafka-jira] 20210729 [jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-9858) CVE-2016-3189 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.mailing-list
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
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