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CVE-2009-2624

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

13 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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
- -

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