Gzip vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Gzip is made by Gnu. We track 11 published vulnerabilities in it, across 26 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Gzip, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Gzip's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Gzip flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 5.2%CVE-2022-1271High
An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility.
- 4.8%CVE-2010-0001Medium
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...
- 4.2%CVE-2009-2624Medium
The huft_build function in inflate.c in gzip before 1.3.13 creates a hufts (aka huffman) table that is too small, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or infinite loop) or...
- 3.6%CVE-2005-1228Medium
Directory traversal vulnerability in gunzip -N in gzip 1.2.4 through 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a ..
- 3.1%CVE-2004-0603Critical
gzexe in gzip 1.3.3 and earlier will execute an argument when the creation of a temp file fails instead of exiting the program, which could allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands, a...
- 3.1%CVE-2001-1228High
Buffer overflows in gzip 1.3x, 1.2.4, and other versions might allow attackers to execute code via a long file name, possibly remotely if gzip is run on an FTP server.
- 0.7%
Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose...
- 0.6%
gzip before 1.3 in Solaris 8, when called with the -f or -force flags, will change the permissions of files that are hard linked to the target files, which allows local users to view or modify these files.
- 0.5%CVE-2005-0758Medium
zgrep in gzip before 1.3.5 does not properly sanitize arguments, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that are injected into a sed script.
- 0.4%
znew in the gzip package allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
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An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility. When zgrep is applied on the attacker's chosen file name (for example, a crafted file name), this can overwrite an attacker's content to an arbitrary attacker-selected file. This flaw occurs due to insufficient validation when processing filenames with two or more newlines where selected content and the target file names are embedded in crafted multi-line file names. This flaw allows a remote, low privileged attacker to force zgrep to write arbitrary files on the system.
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We track 11 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Gzip, across 26 versions.
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