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GLSA-200505-05 : gzip: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18231

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200505-05 (gzip: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 The gzip and gunzip programs are vulnerable to a race condition when setting file permissions (CAN-2005-0988), as well as improper handling of filename restoration (CAN-2005-1228). The zgrep utility improperly sanitizes arguments, which may come from an untrusted source (CAN-2005-0758).
 Impact :

 These vulnerabilities could allow arbitrary command execution, changing the permissions of arbitrary files, and installation of files to an aribitrary location in the filesystem.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All gzip users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200505-05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18231

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200505-05.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 5/11/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:gzip

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0758, CVE-2005-0988, CVE-2005-1228

GLSA: 200505-05