Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-1884

Title: Perl Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-1884.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Aug 19, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-1884: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.

Impacted Vendors

larry_wall 1

bzip 1

perl 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/36386 http://secunia.com/advisories/36415 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52628 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00999.html http://secunia.com/advisories/36386 http://secunia.com/advisories/36415 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36082 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281955 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52628 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00982.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00999.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-1884 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 19, 2009 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.