CVE-2010-0001

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.8

Exploit probability—

Product

Gnu Gzip

PublishedJan 29, 2010

First seenJan 29, 2010

How to fix

Vendor advisories

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
gnu gzip	v ≤ 1.3.13, 1.2.4, 1.2.4a, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8, 1.3.9, 1.3.10, 1.3.11, 1.3.12	—

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