Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-1884 to the following vulnerability:

Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.

References: ----------- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1884 https://bugs.gentoo.org/showbug.cgi?id=281955 https://bugs.gentoo.org/showbug.cgi?id=281955