Vulnerability CVE-2006-4336

Vulnerability CVE-2006-4336

Published: 2006-09-19 Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10	6.4/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
GZIP -> GZIP

References:

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://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-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html

http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1181

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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10140

Vulnerability CVE-2006-4336

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.

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

7.5/10

6.4/10

10/10

Remote

Low

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: