OpenPKG Security Advisory

Publisher Name:          OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home:          http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2006.020
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2006.020
Advisory Published:      2008-08-07 21:59 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20060920.01
Issue First Created:     2006-09-20
Issue Last Modified:     2006-12-07
Issue Revision:          08


Subject Name:            gzip
Subject Summary:         De-/Compression with GZIP Algorithm
Subject Home:            http://www.gzip.org/
Subject Versions:        * <= 1.3.5

Vulnerability Id:        CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336,
                         CVE-2006-4337, CVE-2006-4338
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility:      run-time
Attack Vector:           local system
Attack Impact:           denial of service, arbitrary code execution

Description:
    Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several
    vulnerabilities in the compression tool GZIP [1]. The problems
    are a NULL dereference, an out-of-bound (OOB) write, a buffer
    underflow, a buffer overflow and an infinite loop.

References:
    [1] http://www.gzip.org/


Primary Package Name:    gzip
Primary Package Home:    http://openpkg.org/go/package/gzip

Affected Distribution:   Affected Branch:  Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.5-SOLID         gzip-1.3.5-2.5.0
OpenPKG Community        2-STABLE          gzip-1.3.5-2.20060622
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           gzip-1.3.5-20050724

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.5-SOLID         gzip-1.3.5-2.5.1
OpenPKG Community        2-STABLE          gzip-1.3.5-2.20060920
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           gzip-1.3.5-20060920