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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1149-1 (ncompress)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ncompress announced via advisory DSA 1149-1. Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team discovered a missing boundary check in ncompress, the original Lempel-Ziv compress and uncompress programs, which allows a specially crafted datastream to underflow a buffer with attacker controlled data.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4-15sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4-15sarge2. We recommend that you upgrade your ncompress package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201149-1

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