CVE-2023-29420: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

April 6, 2023 (updated November 7, 2023)

An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 before 1.2.3. There is a crash caused by an invalid memmove in bz3_decode_block.

References

github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/commit/bb06deb85f1c249838eb938e0dab271d4194f8fa
github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/compare/1.2.2...1.2.3
github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/issues/92
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29420

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