CVE-2010-0001

Summary

CVECVE-2010-0001
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-01-29 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 02:20:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Gzip 1.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.2.4a All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.10 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.11 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.12 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.6 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.7 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.9 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.2.4a All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.10 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.11 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.12 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.6 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.7 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip 1.3.9 All All All
Application Gnu Gzip All All All All

References

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Advisories | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
GNU gzip "unlzw()" Integer Underflow Vulnerability - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2011:152 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2074-1 ncompress DEBIAN www.debian.org
SSRT100018 HP itrc.hp.com
Red Hat update for gzip - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gzip Integer Underflow in Processing LZW Compressed Archives May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2010-0001 MISC access.redhat.com
APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1 Mac OS X v10.6.5 and Security Update 2010-007 APPLE lists.apple.com
Debian update for ncompress - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com
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554418 – (CVE-2010-0001) CVE-2010-0001 gzip: (64 bit) Integer underflow by decompressing LZW format files CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
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61869 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
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