Ubuntu 5.x: USN-349-1 Critical: Gzip Arbitrary Code Exploit

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October 16, 2006

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking

Summary

Topics Covered

security advisory critical arbitrary code execution Ubuntu system upgrade gzip Tavis Ormandy

Update Instructions

References

Severity

critical

Lowest

Low

Medium

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Critical

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-349-1 September 19, 2006

Topics Covered

security advisory critical arbitrary code execution Ubuntu system upgrade gzip Tavis Ormandy

Package Information

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