PT-2006-5147 · Gnu+2 · Gzip+2

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2006-09-19 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2006-4338

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gzip version 1.3.5

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop, via a crafted GZIP archive. This is due to a problem in the unlzh.c file within the LHZ component of gzip.

Recommendations For gzip version 1.3.5, consider avoiding the use of crafted GZIP archives until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of GZIP archives from untrusted sources to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4338

DSA-1181-1

HPSBUX02195

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10440-1

RHSA-2006:0667

RHSA-2006_0667

Affected Products

Hp-Ux

Red Hat

Gzip

References · 77

• 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
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4338 · 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-2006-4338 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4337 · Security Note