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Gzip Bugs in Expanding Archives Let Remote Users Cause Denial of Service Conditions or Arbitrary Code Execution
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1016883
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016883
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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4334
, CVE-2006-4335
, CVE-2006-4336
, CVE-2006-4337
, CVE-2006-4338
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 19 2006
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Impact: Denial of service via network, Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network
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Version(s): 1.2.4
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Gzip. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create a specially crafted archive that, when expanded by the target user or application, will trigger a buffer
overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the target user or application.
A
specially crafted archive can also trigger a NULL pointer dereference or cause gzip to enter an infinite loop.
Tavis Ormandy
of the Google Security Team discovered these vulnerabilities.
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Impact: A remote user can create an archive that, when processed by the target user or application, will execute arbitrary code on the target system or cause gzip to crash or hang.
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Solution: No upstream solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.gzip.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Boundary error, State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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