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ID CVE-2005-1228
Summary 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 .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 5.0 (as of 11-10-2017 - 01:30)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE PARTIAL NONE
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
oval via4
  • accepted 2013-04-29T04:11:10.109-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    • name Aharon Chernin
      organization SCAP.com, LLC
    • name Dragos Prisaca
      organization G2, Inc.
    definition_extensions
    • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782
    • comment CentOS Linux 3.x
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651
    • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831
    • comment CentOS Linux 4.x
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636
    • comment Oracle Linux 4.x
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
    description 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 .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11057
    status accepted
    submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
    title 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 .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.
    version 29
  • accepted 2009-08-03T04:00:02.600-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    • name Robert L. Hollis
      organization ThreatGuard, Inc.
    • name Nabil Ouchn
      organization Security-Database
    • name Pai Peng
      organization Hewlett-Packard
    description 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 .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:170
    status accepted
    submitted 2006-09-22T05:52:00.000-04:00
    title Sun Solaris Gzip Race condition and Directory Traversal Issues
    version 37
  • accepted 2005-08-18T07:37:00.000-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    name Jay Beale
    organization Bastille Linux
    description 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 .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:382
    status accepted
    submitted 2005-06-20T12:00:00.000-04:00
    title gzip Directory Traversal Vulnerability
    version 4
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2005:357
rpms
  • gzip-0:1.3.3-12.rhel3
  • gzip-0:1.3.3-15.rhel4
  • gzip-debuginfo-0:1.3.3-12.rhel3
  • gzip-debuginfo-0:1.3.3-15.rhel4
refmap via4
apple APPLE-SA-2006-08-01
bid 19289
bugtraq 20050420 gzip directory traversal vulnerability
cert TA06-214A
confirm http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305255
debian DSA-752
osvdb 15721
sco SCOSA-2005.58
secunia
  • 15047
  • 18100
  • 21253
  • 22033
slackware SSA:2006-262
sunalert 101816
vupen ADV-2006-3101
xf gzip-n-directory-traversal(20199)
statements via4
contributor Mark J Cox
lastmodified 2007-03-14
organization Red Hat
statement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Last major update 11-10-2017 - 01:30
Published 02-05-2005 - 04:00
Last modified 11-10-2017 - 01:30
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