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    CVE-2009-2624

    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.

    Published:Jan 20, 2010
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Jan 29, 2010
    EPSS Score:0.07318
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Gzip

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    CVE-2010-0001 (CVSS 6.8) — Integer underflow in the unlzw function in unlzw.c in gzip before 1.4 on 64-bit platforms, as used in ncompres…
    CVE-2005-0758 (CVSS 4.6) — zgrep in gzip before 1.3.5 does not properly sanitize arguments, which allows local users to execute arbitrary…
    CVE-2005-1228 (CVSS 5) — Directory traversal vulnerability in gunzip -N in gzip 1.2.4 through 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to write to…
    CVE-2005-0988 (CVSS 3.7) — Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to mod…
    CVE-2004-0970 (CVSS 2.1) — The (1) gzexe, (2) zdiff, and (3) znew scripts in the gzip package, as used by other packages such as ncompres…
    CVE-2004-1349 (CVSS 2.1) — gzip before 1.3 in Solaris 8, when called with the -f or -force flags, will change the permissions of files th…
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    References

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/258
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507263
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=39a362ae9d9b007473381dba5032f4dfc1744cf2
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38132
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38223
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38232
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
    http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1974
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:020
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-889-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0185
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514711
    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/258
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507263
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=39a362ae9d9b007473381dba5032f4dfc1744cf2
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38132
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38223
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38232
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
    http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1974
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:020
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-889-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0185
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514711

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