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CVE-2009-2624
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
The huft_build function in inflate.c in gzip before 1.3.13 creates a hufts (aka huffman) table that is too small, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or infinite loop) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive. NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2006-4334 regression..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 6.8/10
- Exploit Score
- 8.6/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Medium
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.2.4a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38132
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-889-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0185
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=39a362ae9d9b007473381dba5032f4dfc17
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38223
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38232
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514711
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:020
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507263
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1974
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/258
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html