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CVE-2019-12900

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 8% (pctl 95)

In your normal cycle

Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.

Description

BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors.

Scoring

CVSS9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS7.98% — more likely to be exploited than 95% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-787
On CISA KEVno
Public exploitnone known
Published2019-06-19
Last modified2026-06-17

Affected (6)

VendorProduct
bzipbzip2
canonicalubuntu linux
debiandebian linux
freebsdfreebsd
opensuseleap
pythonpython

References

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