Bug 514711 (CVE-2009-2624) - CVE-2009-2624 gzip: Missing input sanitation by decompressing dynamic Huffman code blocks
Summary: CVE-2009-2624 gzip: Missing input sanitation by decompressing dynamic Huffman...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-2624
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 555090 557471
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-30 12:42 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-25 12:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-09-02 20:50:56 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-07-30 12:42:04 UTC
A missing input sanitation flaw was found in the way gzip used to decompress data blocks for dynamic Huffman codes. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted gzip compressed data archive, which once opened by a local, unsuspecting user would lead to denial of service (gzip crash) or, potentially, 
to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running gzip.

Upstream patch:
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http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=39a362ae9d9b007473381dba5032f4dfc1744cf2

CVE Note:
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This flaw reportedly exists due to re-introduction of CVE-2006-4334 issue:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4334

in upstream gzip version (originally fixed in gzip-v1.3.6, reintroduced
later in gzip-v1.3.10 and fixed again with above commit -- in gzip-v.1.3.13).

Credit:
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Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG)

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-07-30 13:51:46 UTC
This issue does NOT affect the versions of the gzip package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This issue affects the versions of the gzip package, as shipped with
Fedora releases of 11 and 12.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2010-01-21 19:55:58 UTC
gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2010-01-21 19:59:15 UTC
gzip-1.3.12-10.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gzip-1.3.12-10.fc11

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2010-02-01 01:02:58 UTC
gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2010-02-01 01:03:45 UTC
gzip-1.3.12-10.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Vincent Danen 2014-09-02 20:50:56 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of gzip as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.  It was corrected in the versions of gzip as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and later.


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