CVE-2006-4334

Summary

CVECVE-2006-4334
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-19 21:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:34:00 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted GZIP (gz) archive, which results in a NULL dereference.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gzip Gzip 1.3.5 All All All
Application Gzip Gzip 1.3.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenPKG Corporation: Security: Security Advisories OPENPKG www.openpkg.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
VMware ESX Server 2.5.4 Upgrade Patch 5 (for 2.5.4 Systems Only) CONFIRM www.vmware.com
2006-0052 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
Red Hat update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
rPath update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE slackware.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-333A -- Apple Releases Security Update to Address Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
GNU GZip Archive Handling Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Slackware update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Gentoo update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Avaya Products gzip Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
HP Tru64 UNIX gzip Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
usn/usn-349-1 - Ubuntu: Linux for human beings UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
APPLE-SA-2006-11-28 Security Update 2006-007 APPLE lists.apple.com
HP-UX update for GZIP - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
gzip Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[#RPL-615] multiple vulnerabilities in gzip: CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338 - rPath JIRA CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Mandriva update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
20061001-01-P SGI patches.sgi.com
204676 – CVE-2006-4334 gzip multiple issues (CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337, CVE-2006-4338) MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
ASA-2006-218 (RHSA-2006-0667) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
SUSE update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
#102766: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the gzip(1) Command May Lead to Denial of Service (DoS) or Execution of Arbitrary Code SUNALERT sunsolve.sun.com
SecurityFocus HP www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus FEDORA www.securityfocus.com
About the security content of Security Update 2006-007 CONFIRM docs.info.apple.com
FreeBSD update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
VMware ESX Server Multiple Security Updates - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Gzip Bugs in Expanding Archives Let Remote Users Cause Denial of Service Conditions or Arbitrary Code Execution SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Debian update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Sun Solaris update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#933712 CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
SecurityFocus HP www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gzip: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
FreeBSD-SA-06:21 FREEBSD security.freebsd.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1181-1 gzip DEBIAN www.us.debian.org
Ubuntu update for gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Trustix updates for freetype / gzip - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
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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