What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 19, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated