Bug 156269 - CAN-2005-1228 directory traversal bug
Summary: CAN-2005-1228 directory traversal bug
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gzip
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20050418,reported=2...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-28 15:47 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-03 10:11:28 UTC
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Used patch. (517 bytes, patch)
2005-04-29 13:47 UTC, Ivana Varekova
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-28 15:47:00 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #156266 +++

A directory traversal bug exists in multiple versions of gzip. When
compressing a file, gzip saves its original name but not its path inside
the compressed file. When using gunzip's "-N" option, the original name
found inside the compressed file will be used as the name to save the
decompressed file with. "gunzip -N" doesn't check if the original name inside
the compressed file has any "/" characters in it. This makes it possible to
create a malicious compressed file that when decompressed with "gunzip -N"
will create a file at an arbitrary location in the file system.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305255

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2005-04-29 13:47:44 UTC
Created attachment 113840 [details]
Used patch.

I used Ulf Harnhammar.
I fixed this problem in devel (gzip-1.3.5-5). 
(Gunzip remove any directory prefix if you use -N and in compressed input file
contain name with "/" characters.)

Ivana Varekova


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