Title : Debian Security Update Fixes Multiple Gzip Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1048 CVE ID : CVE-2005-0988 - CVE-2005-1228 CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-07-11
Technical Description
Debian has released a security patch to correct two vulnerabilities identified in gzip. The first flaw is due to a race condition error in the file permission restore code, which may be exploited by a malicious local user, with write permissions, to gain read or write access to files of other users. The second vulnerability is due a directory traversal error that occurs when gunzip is used with the "-N" option, which may be exploited by attackers to create files in an arbitrary directory. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0460
Debian GNU/Linux old stable (woody) - Upgrade to version 1.3.2-3woody5
Debian GNU/Linux stable (sarge) - Upgrade to version version 1.3.5-10
Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) - Upgrade to version version 1.3.5-10 References
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