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CVE-2026-42250VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE · Security update for bzip2

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 10 Nov 2026, 20:06 UTC

Severity
Low

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 4 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

Description

This update for bzip2 fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-42250: off-by-one error in the `bzip2recover` utility when processing a specially crafted file can lead to a crash (bsc#1266786).

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