Bug 165679

Summary: CVE-2005-2458 gzip/zlib flaws
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: Peter Staubach <staubach>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: jbaron
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=low,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0101 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Mark J. Cox 2005-08-11 11:45:49 UTC 
Tim Yamin from Gentoo noticed that some older security related bugs in the
decompression code had not been fixed in the kernel.  This is fairly minor as
there are few places where the kernel decompresses arbitrary data.  However it
could be a problem for things like zisofs (if someone mounts a malicious
filesystem), perhaps cslip or ppp too).

CAN-2005-2458 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html
impact=low,source=vendorsec,public=19990625

CAN-2005-2459
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94584
impact=low,source=vendorsec,public=20050531

Fix for 2.6 is here, pretty much identical for 2.4:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@42f3f4e9KIoV6pLtA430xgwjKh2V7g
Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2005-08-18 10:09:17 UTC 
Sergey Vlasov has done some analysis on these issues and discovered that the
changes in file lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c are incorrect and in fact are not
needed.  Gentoo have agreed and therefore from the patch above please ignore the
lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c hunk.  This means that CAN-2005-2549 is dropped, but
CAN-2005-2548 still applies.
Comment 5 Jason Baron 2005-08-22 19:00:19 UTC 
Marc, do CAN-2005-2458?
Comment 6 Jason Baron 2005-08-22 19:01:00 UTC 
i meant Mark. sorry.
Comment 7 Peter Staubach 2005-10-20 17:51:54 UTC 
Created attachment 120202 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 12 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-01-17 08:32:30 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html