{"cve":"CVE-2026-42250","nvd":{"published":"2026-05-28T14:16:19.890","modified":"2026-06-17T10:47:34.687","status":"Awaiting Analysis","description":"bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service).\n\nThis issue was fixed in bzip2 patch 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67","cvss_v4":{"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","score":4.8},"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-787"],"references":["https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-42250/","https://inbox.sourceware.org/bzip2-devel/20260528145407.293768-1-mark@klomp.org/","https://sourceware.org/bzip2/","https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:36:28.938604137+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-42250","score":0.00126,"percentile":0.02305,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}