CVE-2006-4336 Information

Description

Buffer underflow in the build_tree function in unpack.c in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted leaf count table that causes a write to a negative index.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204676 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/21996 http://secunia.com/advisories/22002 http://secunia.com/advisories/22009 http://secunia.com/advisories/22012 http://secunia.com/advisories/22017 http://secunia.com/advisories/22027 http://secunia.com/advisories/22033 http://secunia.com/advisories/22034 http://secunia.com/advisories/22043 http://secunia.com/advisories/22085 http://secunia.com/advisories/22101 http://secunia.com/advisories/22435 http://secunia.com/advisories/22487 http://secunia.com/advisories/22661 http://secunia.com/advisories/23153 http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 http://secunia.com/advisories/23156 http://secunia.com/advisories/23679 http://secunia.com/advisories/24435 http://secunia.com/advisories/24636 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip.asc http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-13.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016883 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.555852 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102766-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-218.htm http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-24.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/554780 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:167 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_56_gzip.html http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.020-gzip.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0667.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446426/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450078/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451324/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462007/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464268/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20101 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0052/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-349-1 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1181 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3695 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4275 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4760 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0092 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0832 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1171 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29042 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-615 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10140