CVE-2005-1228

Summary

CVECVE-2005-1228
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-11 01:30:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in gunzip -N in gzip 1.2.4 through 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Gzip 1.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
15721 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE slackware.com
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Slackware update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Secunia - Advisories - gzip Directory Traversal Vulnerability SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
SCOSA-2005.58 SCO ftp.sco.com
APPLE-SA-2006-08-01 Security Update 2006-004 APPLE lists.apple.com
Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-752-1 gzip DEBIAN www.debian.org
20050420 gzip directory traversal vulnerability BUGTRAQ marc.info
Secunia - Advisories - UnixWare update for gzip SECUNIA secunia.com
#101816: Security Vulnerabilities in the gzip(1) Command SUNALERT sunsolve.sun.com
#305255 - CAN-2005-1228 gzip: dir traversal bug when using "gunzip -N" - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-214A -- Apple Mac Products Affected by Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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