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CVE-2006-4334 Detail

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted GZIP (gz) archive, which results in a NULL dereference.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
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.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/933712 US Government Resource 
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 US Government Resource 
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/2006/4275
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
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/29038
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-615
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10527

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4334
NVD Published Date:
09/19/2006
NVD Last Modified:
10/17/2018
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.