[PATCH] lib/decompress_bunzip2: fix off-by-one in run-length bounds check
From: Matt Turner
Date: Sat Sep 12 2026 - 14:18:17 EST
The run-length path rejects a block when dbufCount+t equals dbufSize,
but the loop that follows writes exactly t bytes starting at dbufCount,
so a block that fills the buffer exactly is legal. bzip2 allows it too:
its decompressor bounds a block at 100000 * blockSize100k and checks
that limit per byte appended. Use > instead of >=.
bzip2's encoder stops filling a block 19 bytes early, so nothing it
produces ever reaches the limit and the bug stays hidden. Compressors
that use the full block size do reach it: an lbzip2 -9 image whose block
ends on a run fails to decode, and a self-extracting kernel built that
way does not boot.
This code came from busybox, which fixed the same line in 2013 in commit
932e233a491b ("bunzip2: fix off-by-one check").
Fixes: bc22c17e12c1 ("bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/decompress_bunzip2: fix off-by-one in run-length bounds check
---
lib/decompress_bunzip2.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/decompress_bunzip2.c b/lib/decompress_bunzip2.c
index 1288f146661f..aaa75404250e 100644
--- a/lib/decompress_bunzip2.c
+++ b/lib/decompress_bunzip2.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static int INIT get_next_block(struct bunzip_data *bd)
array.) */
if (runPos) {
runPos = 0;
- if (dbufCount+t >= dbufSize)
+ if (dbufCount+t > dbufSize)
return RETVAL_DATA_ERROR;
uc = symToByte[mtfSymbol[0]];
---
base-commit: 893e11787f78e43b534e252249ac3fff4d1333f8
change-id: 20260912-b4-bunzip2-blocksize-fix-7333376abd40
Best regards,
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Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>