Bug 1618182 (CVE-2006-4338) - CVE-2006-4338 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-4338 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-4338
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 12:35 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:35:40 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:35:33 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:48:20 UTC 
MITRE description:

unlzh.c in the LHZ component in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted GZIP archive.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:30:19 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220595

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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