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Version 1.0.6 of bzip2

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• 1.0.6

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•  22 Sep 2010 10:29
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• Major security fixes

Release Notes: This release fixes a potential integer overflow vulnerability, reported as CVE-2010-0405.

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• 1.0.5

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•  21 Mar 2008 05:27
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• Major security fixes

Release Notes: This release removes a potential security vulnerability which caused bzip2 to fail one of the test cases provided and reported in CERT-FI 20469. Upgrading is strongly recommended.

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• 1.0.4

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•  05 Jan 2007 07:54
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• Minor security fixes

Release Notes: A race problem with file permissions, as reported in CAN-2005-0953, has been fixed. Problems with file name sanitizing in bzgrep, as reported for zgrep (from gzip package) in CAN-2005-0758, have been fixed. A potential segfault in BZ2_bzclose() has been eliminated. Minor code and build system cleanups have been made.

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• 1.0.3

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•  12 Apr 2005 08:30
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• Minor security fixes

Release Notes: This release enhances the robustness against corrupted compressed data. Upgrading is recommended. Documentation bugs have been fixed. Building on 64-bit platforms and with gcc4 was improved.

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• 1.0.2

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•  01 Feb 2002 03:04
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• Minor bugfixes

Release Notes: This release fixes file handling and documentation bugs.