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ubuntuUbuntuUSN-158-1
HistoryAug 01, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

gzip utility vulnerability

2005-08-0100:00:00
ubuntu.com
29

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.2%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 5.04
  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

zgrep did not handle shell metacharacters like ‘|’ and ‘&’ properly
when they occurred in input file names. This could be exploited to
execute arbitrary commands with user privileges if zgrep is run in an
untrusted directory with specially crafted file names.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu5.04noarchgzip< *UNKNOWN
Ubuntu4.10noarchgzip< *UNKNOWN

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.2%