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HistorySep 20, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

gzip vulnerabilities

2006-09-2000:00:00
ubuntu.com
88

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.082

Percentile

94.4%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 6.06
  • Ubuntu 5.10
  • Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the
validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking. By tricking an
user or automated system into unpacking a specially crafted compressed
file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
user’s privileges.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu6.06noarchgzip< 1.3.5-12ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu5.10noarchgzip< 1.3.5-11ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu5.04noarchgzip< 1.3.5-9ubuntu3.5UNKNOWN

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.082

Percentile

94.4%