CVE-2023-22895: bzip2 fixed in 0.4.4

CVE-2023-22895 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Reported by mitre · Published January 10, 2023

bzip2 is fixed in 0.4.4 (crates.io)

The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. NOTE: this is unrelated to the https://crates.io/crates/bzip2-rs product.

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
bzip2	crates.io	0.4.4

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a
crates.io	bzip2	0
n/a	n/a	*

Timeline

Jan 10, 2023 CVE Published
Jan 10, 2023 EPSS Score (30 in total, the first dated here)
Feb 21, 2026 CVE Updated
Mar 17, 2026 Security Advisory (2 in total, the first dated here)

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