Technical Description

Redhat has released a security patch to correct three vulnerabilities identified in gzip. These flaws may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands, change the permissions of arbitrary files, and place files to aribitrary locations. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0460

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor

Solution

Use Red Hat Network to download and update your packages :
http://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0754
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-357.html

ChangeLog

2005-06-14 : Initial release

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