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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2074-1 (ncompress)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

13 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ncompress announced via advisory DSA 2074-1.

Insight

Insight

Aki Helin discovered an integer underflow in ncompress, the original Lempel-Ziv compress/uncompress programs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when trying to decompress a crafted LZW compressed gzip archive. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4.2-1+lenny1. For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your ncompress package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202074-1

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