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HistorySep 26, 2006 - 1:43 p.m.

remote system compromise in gzip

2006-09-2613:43:14
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0.076 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.4%

The gzip tool does not handle some specific values correctly when unpacking archives. This leads to vulnerabilities like buffer overflows or infinite loops. Various different programs like mail clients, file explorer, etc. use gzip and if a user can be deveived to unpack the archive of an attacker these bugs can lead to remote system compromise. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team for informing us about this issue.

Solution

The is no work-around known.