CVE-2010-0001

CVE Details

Release Date:	2010-01-29
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Integer underflow in the unlzw function in unlzw.c in gzip before 1.4 on 64-bit platforms, as used in ncompress and probably others, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive that uses LZW compression, leading to an array index error.

See more information about CVE-2010-0001 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (gzip)	ELSA-2010-0061	2010-01-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (gzip)	ELSA-2010-0061	2010-01-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (gzip)	ELSA-2010-0061	2010-01-20