gzip contains an infinite loop vulnerability in its LZH handling

Overview The gzip program contains a infinite loop vulnerability that may allow an attacker to create a denial-of-service condition. Description The gzip program is used to compress and decompress archived files. A infinite loop vulnerability exists in the way gzip handles certain files. An...

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1168

The decompress function in compress42.c in 1 ncompress 4.2.4 and 2 liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow...

Buffer overflow

The decompress function in compress42.c in 1 ncompress 4.2.4 and 2 liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow...

CVE-2006-1168

The decompress function in compress42.c in 1 ncompress 4.2.4 and 2 liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow...

CVE-2006-1168

The decompress function in compress42.c in 1 ncompress 4.2.4 and 2 liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow...

CVE-2006-1611

Directory traversal vulnerability in KGB Archiver before 1.1.5.22 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files wile decompressing an archive, possibly due to directory traversal sequences in a filename...

SUSE-SA:2005:039: zlib

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:039 zlib. A denial of service condition was fixed in the zlib library. Any program using zlib to decompress data can be crashed by a specially handcrafted invalid data stream. This includes web browsers or email programs able to...

USN-116-1: gzip vulnerabilities

Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in the file permission restore code of gzip and gunzip. While a user was compressing or decompressing a file, a local attacker with write permissions in the directory of that file could replace the target file with a hard link. This would cause gzip to...

CVE-2004-0548

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the word-list-compress functionality in compress.c for Aspell allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long entry in the wordlist that is not properly handled when using the 1 "c" compress option or 2 "d" decompress option...