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CVE-2026-9669

bz2.BZ2Decompressor reuse after error can cause a stack buffer overflow

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.10.21, 3.11.16, 3.12.14, 3.13.14, 3.14.6, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

bz2.BZ2Decompressor objects could be reused after a decompression error. If an application caught the resulting OSError and retried with the same decompressor, crafted input could cause the decompressor to resume from an invalid internal state and perform out-of-bounds writes to a stack buffer. This could crash the process when processing untrusted data.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Python Software Foundation CPython

    fixed in 3.10.21; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.16; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.14; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.14; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.6; From 3.15.0a1 · fixed in 3.15.0b3

References 10

GitHub · python/cpython

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