Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gzip vulnerabilities (USN-349-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27929

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking. By tricking an user or automated system into unpacking a specially crafted compressed file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gzip package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27929

File Name: ubuntu_USN-349-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gzip, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337, CVE-2006-4338

USN: 349-1

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