[Technik] [SECURITY] [DSA 1181-1] New gzip packages fix arbitrary code execution

[Noèl Köthe]

Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 21:19 +0200 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:

> Debian Security Advisory DSA 1181-1                    security at debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                         Moritz Muehlenhoff
> September 19th, 2006                    http://www.debian.org/security/faq
> 
> Package        : gzip
> Vulnerability  : several
> Problem-Type   : local(remote)
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE ID         : CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338

gzip auf pima, pomo, yuma, cusa, h01, h02, h03, cree, crow, wasco, cupa,
kiowa, karuk, kansa und acoma aktualisiert.

> For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
> version 1.3.5-10sarge2.

changelog:
gzip (1.3.5-10sarge2) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team:
  * Fix several security problems discovered by Tavis Ormandy of Google:
    - DoS through null pointer deference in the Huffman code (CVE-2006-4334)
    - Out-of-bands stack write in LZH decompression code (CVE-2006-4335)
    - Buffer overflow in pack code (CVE-2006-4336)
    - Buffer overflow in LZH code (CVE-2006-4337)
    - DoS through an infinite loop in LZH code (CVE-2006-4337)
    (Patch by Thomas Biege of SuSe)

 -- Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org>  Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:01:47 +0000

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
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