[KAFKA-9858] CVE-2016-3189 Use-after-free vulnerability in bzip2recover in bzip2 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted bzip2 file, related to block ends set to before the start of the block.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.2, 2.3.1, 2.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: security
• External issue URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3189
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: sihuanx
• Created: 13/Apr/20 12:33
• Updated: 29/Jul/21 18:33
• Resolved: 29/Jul/21 18:33

Description

I'm not sure whether  CVE-2016-3189 affects kafka 2.4.1  or not?  This vulnerability  was related to rocksdbjni-5.18.3.jar  which is compiled with bzip2 . 

Is there any task or plan to fix it?