Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1260

Title: bzip2 decompression bomb DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1260.

CWE Category CWE-400

Published Date May 19, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1260: 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").

Impacted Vendors

bzip 1

bzip2_project 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/15447 http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 http://secunia.com/advisories/27274 http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13657 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10700 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A749 https://usn.ubuntu.com/127-1/ ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/15447 http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 http://secunia.com/advisories/27274 http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13657 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10700 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A749 https://usn.ubuntu.com/127-1/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1260 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 19, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.