Gzip 1.3.12 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team on Friday, January 29th, 2010 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Gzip 1.3.12 and prior [Medium]

Description

The huft_build function in inflate.c in gzip before 1.3.13 creates a hufts (aka huffman) table that is too small, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or infinite loop) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive. NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2006-4334 regression.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-2624
Severity: Medium

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