Debian DSA-1974-1 : gzip - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44839

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in gzip, the GNU compression utilities. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-2624 Thiemo Nagel discovered a missing input sanitation flaw in the way gzip used to decompress data blocks for dynamic Huffman codes, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when trying to decompress a crafted archive. This issue is a reappearance of CVE-2006-4334 and only affects the lenny version.

- CVE-2010-0001 Aki Helin discovered an integer underflow when decompressing files that are compressed using the LZW algorithm. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when trying to decompress a crafted LZW compressed gzip archive.

Solution

Upgrade the gzip packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.12-6+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.5-15+etch1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44839

File Name: debian_DSA-1974.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gzip, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2624, CVE-2010-0001

CWE: 189, 20

DSA: 1974

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