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CVE-2005-1260

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1260 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in bzip2, affecting products from Apple, Canonical, and Debian, where a specially crafted bzip2 file can lead to infinite decompression and hard drive consumption. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.0, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to cause a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0615 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: bzip2-0:1.0.2-11.EL3.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: bzip2-0:1.0.2-13.EL4.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1260Low

security flaw

Feb 15, 2005

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc
Broken Link
docs.info.apple.com / article.html
Broken Link
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/15447
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19183
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27274
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27643
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10700
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A749
Third Party Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
usn.ubuntu.com / 127-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-741
Third Party Advisory
fedoralegacy.org / updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html
Permissions Required
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/13657
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/26444
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3525
Permissions Required
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3868
Permissions Required