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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:749 Date: 2005-07-11
Title: bzip2 Decompression Bomb
Description: bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").
Version: 1 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2005-1260
Family: unix
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Product(s): bzip2
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