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Security ERRATA Important: bzip2 on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:21:52 -0600
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Synopsis:	Important: bzip2 security update

Issue date:	2010-11-10

CVE Names:	CVE-2010-0405



An integer overflow flaw was discovered in the bzip2 decompression 

routine. This issue could, when decompressing malformed archives, cause 

bzip2, or an application linked against the libbz2 library, to crash or, 

potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-0405)



All running applications using the libbz2 library must be restarted for 

the update to take effect.



SL 6.x



      SRPMS:

bzip2-1.0.5-7.el6_0.src.rpm

      i386:

bzip2-1.0.5-7.el6_0.i686.rpm

bzip2-devel-1.0.5-7.el6_0.i686.rpm

bzip2-libs-1.0.5-7.el6_0.i686.rpm

      x86_64:

bzip2-1.0.5-7.el6_0.x86_64.rpm

bzip2-devel-1.0.5-7.el6_0.i686.rpm

bzip2-devel-1.0.5-7.el6_0.x86_64.rpm

bzip2-libs-1.0.5-7.el6_0.i686.rpm

bzip2-libs-1.0.5-7.el6_0.x86_64.rpm



-Connie Sieh

-Troy Dawson

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