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FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc)

🗓️ 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2011 E-Soft Inc.Type 
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FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc advisory - LZW compression vulnerability

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70415");
  script_version("2023-07-26T05:05:09+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-26 05:05:09 +0000 (Wed, 26 Jul 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-10-16 23:01:53 +0200 (Sun, 16 Oct 2011)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2895");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_name("FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 E-Soft Inc.");
  script_family("FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/freebsd", "ssh/login/freebsdpatchlevel");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The compress utility reduces the size of files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv
coding, or LZW coding, a lossless data compression algorithm.

Both compress(1) and gzip(1) uses code derived from 4.3BSD compress(1).

The code used to decompress a file created by compress(1) does not do
sufficient boundary checks on compressed code words, allowing reference
beyond the decompression table, which may result in a stack overflow or
an infinite loop when the decompressor encounters a corrupted file.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade your system to the appropriate stable release
  or security branch dated after the correction date.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to the system
  as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("pkg-lib-bsd.inc");

vuln = FALSE;

if(patchlevelcmp(rel:"7.4", patchlevel:"3")<0) {
  vuln = TRUE;
}
if(patchlevelcmp(rel:"7.3", patchlevel:"7")<0) {
  vuln = TRUE;
}
if(patchlevelcmp(rel:"8.2", patchlevel:"3")<0) {
  vuln = TRUE;
}
if(patchlevelcmp(rel:"8.1", patchlevel:"5")<0) {
  vuln = TRUE;
}

if(vuln) {
  security_message(port:0);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
  exit(99);
}

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26 Jul 2023 00:00Current
7.3High risk
Vulners AI Score7.3
CVSS 29.3
EPSS0.08355
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