CVE-2016-3189

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Published 2016-06-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3189

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201702-19

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3189.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.0.6-8.1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0.6-8.1
debian debianforkyfixed1.0.6-8.1
debian debiansidfixed1.0.6-8.1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.0.6-8.1
arch archfixed1.0.6-6

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bzipbzip21.0.6
python pythonpython{"startIncluding":"3.7.0","endExcluding":"3.7.13"}3.7.13

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.