CVE Name:       CAN-2005-0953, CAN-2005-1260

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I.   Background

bzip2 is a block-sorting file compression utility.

II.  Problem Description

Two problems have been discovered relating to the extraction of
bzip2-compressed files.  First, a carefully constructed invalid bzip2
archive can cause bzip2 to enter an infinite loop.  Second, when
creating a new file, bzip2 closes the file before setting its
permissions.

III. Impact

The first problem can cause bzip2 to extract a bzip2 archive to an
infinitely large file.  If bzip2 is used in automated processing of
untrusted files this could be exploited by an attacker to create an
denial-of-service situation by exhausting disk space or by consuming
all available cpu time.

The second problem can allow a local attacker to change the
permissions of local files owned by the user executing bzip2 providing
that they have write access to the directory in which the file is
being extracted.

IV.  Workaround

Do not uncompress bzip2 archives from untrusted sources and do not
uncompress files in directories where untrusted users have write
access.

V.   Solution

Perform one of the following:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE or 5-STABLE, or to the
RELENG_5_4, RELENG_5_3, RELENG_4_11, or RELENG_4_10 security branch
dated after the correction date.

2) To patch your present system:

The following patches have been verified to apply to FreeBSD 4.10,
4.11, 5.3, and 5.4 systems.

a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.

# fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-05:14/bzip2.patch
# fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-05:14/bzip2.patch.asc

b) Execute the following commands as root:

# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
# cd /usr/src/lib/libbz2
# make obj && make depend && make && make install
# cd /usr/src/usr.bin/bzip2
# make obj && make depend && make && make install

VI.  Correction details

The following list contains the revision numbers of each file that was
corrected in FreeBSD.

Branch                                                                                                    
                         Path                                                                            Revision
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VII. References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0953
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1260
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-002.txt