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[OpenPKG-SA-2006.020] OpenPKG Security Advisory (gzip)

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OpenPKG Security Advisory                            The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security/                  http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@xxxxxxxxxxx                         openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx
OpenPKG-SA-2006.020                                          20-Sep-2006
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Package:             gzip
Vulnerability:       denial of service, arbitrary code execution
OpenPKG Specific:    no

Affected Releases:   Affected Packages:       Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT      <= gzip-1.3.5-20050724   >= gzip-1.3.5-20060920
OpenPKG 2-STABLE     <= gzip-1.3.5-2.20060622 >= gzip-1.3.5-2.20060920
OpenPKG 2.5-RELEASE  <= gzip-1.3.5-2.5.0      >= gzip-1.3.5-2.5.1

Description:
  Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several
  vulnerabilities in the compression tool GZIP [1]. The problems
  are a NULL dereference, an out-of-bound (OOB) write, a buffer
  underflow, a buffer overflow and an infinite loop. The Common
  Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the ids
  CVE-2006-4334 [2], CVE-2006-4335 [3], CVE-2006-4336 [4],
  CVE-2006-4337 [5] and CVE-2006-4338 [6] to the problems.
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References:
  [1] http://www.gzip.org/
  [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4334
  [3] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4335
  [4] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4336
  [5] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4337
  [6] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4338
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