Application hang via truncated buffer lengths
Published Jan 10, 2023 · Updated Apr 7, 2025
Denial of service in the Rust bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 allows attackers to hang applications by processing a crafted large file. The Compress and Decompress methods narrow slice lengths to 32-bit c_uint values, so a 4 GiB-aligned buffer length becomes zero and callers loop without progress. Reachability requires an application to process attacker-controlled data large enough to produce the overflowing buffer, and the reported consequence is a hang.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in the Rust bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 allows attackers to hang applications by processing a crafted large file. The Compress and Decompress methods narrow slice lengths to 32-bit c_uint values, so a 4 GiB-aligned buffer length becomes zero and callers loop without progress. Reachability requires an application to process attacker-controlled data large enough to produce the overflowing buffer, and the reported consequence is a hang.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-22895
- Published
- Jan 10, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 7, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-190, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 10, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 7, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- Upstream 4 GiB decompression reproducerproof of concept · demonstrated
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