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Project Release Information2010-09-22 19:29 This release fixes a potential integer overflow vulnerability, reported as CVE-2010-0405. 2008-03-21 14:27 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. 2007-01-05 16:54 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. 2005-04-12 17:30 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. Project ResourcesProject Description bzip2 is a portable, lossless data compressor based on the Burrows-Wheeler transform. It achieves good compression and runs on practically every (32/64-bit) platform in the known universe. The compression engine is also available as a library (libbz2), should you desire a programmatic interface. |