PT-2006-5145 · Gnu+2 · Gzip+2

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2006-09-19 · Updated 2018-10-17 · CVE-2006-4336

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gzip version 1.3.5

Description A buffer underflow issue exists in the build tree function in unpack.c, allowing context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted leaf count table that causes a write to a negative index.

Recommendations For gzip version 1.3.5, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4336

DSA-1181-1

HPSBUX02195

RHSA-2006:0667

RHSA-2006_0667

Affected Products

Hp-Ux

Red Hat

Gzip

References · 73

• http://secunia.com/advisories/22043 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.020-gzip.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22009 · Vendor Advisory
• http://us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1181 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102766-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-24.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/462007/100/0/threaded · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://trustix.org/errata/2006/0052 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/451324/100/0/threaded · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4336 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-4336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4336 · Vendor Advisory