CVE-2010-0001

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    CVE-2010-0001

    Published: 29 Jan 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Integer underflow in the unlzw function in unlzw.c in gzip before 1.4 on 64-bit platforms, as used in ncompress and probably others, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive that uses LZW compression, leading to an array index error.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/38220, http://secunia.com/advisories/38223, http://secunia.com/advisories/38225, http://secunia.com/advisories/38232, http://secunia.com/advisories/40551, http://secunia.com/advisories/40655, http://secunia.com/advisories/40689, http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1974, http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2074, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:019, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:020, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:152, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-889-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0185, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1796, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1872, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554418, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=a3db5806d012082b9e25cc36d09f19cd736a468f, http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083, http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html, http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/#status, http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6153, http://securitytracker.com/id?1023490, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435, http://www.osvdb.org/61869, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0061.html, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10546, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7511

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High