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CVE-2016-3189

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.

CVSS Base Score

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Probability

More exploitable than 97% of all CVEs · Top 3%

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Details

Published: 2016-06-30
Last modified: 2026-10-14
Affected: Python

References

NVD Detail OSV.dev GitHub Advisories

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