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CVE-2023-22895
Published:January 10, 2023
Updated:May 25, 2026
The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/crates/bzip2-rs product.
Affected Packages
bzip2 (RUST):
Affected version(s) >=0.0.1 <0.4.4
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.4.4
Related Resources (13)
https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs/pull/86
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQK57GGXJX3AH7KF6S7S3N7JC5QOYUQ7
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUK2JO25PPA6XBREKJRBLRCD22LKIOLO
https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs
https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs/commit/90c9c182cd5a5ebc75810aebd89b347a7bdf590b
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0004.html
https://crates.io/crates/bzip2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22895
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUK2JO25PPA6XBREKJRBLRCD22LKIOLO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MI5SVRSGKBWB2JGDLDVIFY5ZQVDZP6I7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQK57GGXJX3AH7KF6S7S3N7JC5QOYUQ7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MI5SVRSGKBWB2JGDLDVIFY5ZQVDZP6I7
https://crates.io/crates/bzip2/versions
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Integer Overflow or Wraparound
CWE-190
EPSS
Base Score:
0.52