Description
Integer underflow in the unlzw function in unlzw.c in gzip before 1.4 on 64-bit platforms, as used in ncompress and probably others, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive that uses LZW compression, leading to an array index error.
Affected products
- gnu / gzip1.3.13
- gnu / gzip1.2.4 – 1.2.4
- gnu / gzip1.2.4a – 1.2.4a
- gnu / gzip1.3 – 1.3
- gnu / gzip1.3.1 – 1.3.1
- gnu / gzip1.3.2 – 1.3.2
- gnu / gzip1.3.3 – 1.3.3
- gnu / gzip1.3.4 – 1.3.4
- gnu / gzip1.3.5 – 1.3.5
- gnu / gzip1.3.6 – 1.3.6
- gnu / gzip1.3.7 – 1.3.7
- gnu / gzip1.3.8 – 1.3.8
- gnu / gzip1.3.9 – 1.3.9
- gnu / gzip1.3.10 – 1.3.10
- gnu / gzip1.3.11 – 1.3.11
- gnu / gzip1.3.12 – 1.3.12
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38220
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/40655
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0185
- MISChttp://ncompress.sourceforge.net/#status
- MISChttp://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-889-1
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10546
- MISChttp://securitytracker.com/id?1023490
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1872
- MISChttp://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554418
- MISChttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=a3db5806d012082b9e25cc36d09f19cd736a468f
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1974
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:020
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/40689
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/40551
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7511
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38223
- MISChttp://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6153
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2074
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1796
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0061.html
- MISChttps://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:019
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:152
- MISChttp://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38225
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38232
- MISChttp://www.osvdb.org/61869