What is GHSA-9r29-3vrx-4537?

GHSA-9r29-3vrx-4537 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-9r29-3vrx-4537 cover?

GHSA-9r29-3vrx-4537 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-42250. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

GHSA-9r29-3vrx-4537Medium

bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially...

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GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 28, 2026

Last Modified

May 28, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-42250 →

📋 Description

bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service).

This issue was fixed in bzip2 version 1.0.9

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42250
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250
https://sourceware.org/bzip2
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r29-3vrx-4537