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bzip2 security update

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0893-01

Bzip2 is a freely available, high-quality data compressor. It provides both
stand-alone compression and decompression utilities, as well as a shared
library for use with other programs.

A buffer over-read flaw was discovered in the bzip2 decompression routine.
This issue could cause an application linked against the libbz2 library to
crash when decompressing malformed archives. (CVE-2008-1372)

Users of bzip2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to resolve this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-September/077416.html

Affected packages:
bzip2
bzip2-devel
bzip2-libs