RHSA-2025:0925 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: bzip2 security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 4, 2025
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for bzip2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The bzip2 packages contain a freely available, high-quality data compressor. It provides both standalone compression and decompression utilities, as well as a shared library for use with other programs.
Security Fix(es):
- bzip2: bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing (with data integrity tests fail). (CVE-2019-12900)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.