ZIP archives containing files with large filenames can cause buffer overflows

Overview Multiple file decompression utilities contain buffer overflow vulnerabilities for which the impacts vary. Description Researchers at Rapid7, Inc. have discovered that multiple file decompression utilities are susceptible to buffer overflows as a result of large filenames embedded in...

CVE-2002-0759

bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, does not use the OEXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn the user if an existing file would be overwritten, which could allow attackers to overwrite files via a...

CVE-2002-0059

CVE-2002-0059: The decompression algorithm in zlib 1.1.3 and earlier can cause inflateEnd to free memory more than once (a double free), enabling memory corruption that may allow arbitrary code execution via malformed compression data. Affected: zlib up to version 1.1.3 and earlier. Root cause: d...

[SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

We were told by Michal Zalewski that gzexe as shipped with gzip uses an unsecure method decompressing executables on the fly opening a way of calling arbitrary programs. Newer versions for bo and hamm are fixing this. We recommend you upgrade your gzip package if youre using the gzexe method. dpk...