--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Legacy Update Advisory Synopsis: Updated gzip package fixes security issues Advisory ID: FLSA:211760 Issue date: 2006-11-13 Product: Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core Keywords: Bugfix CVE Names: CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4338, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: An updated gzip package is now available. The gzip package contains the GNU gzip data compression program. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Fedora Core 3 - i386, x86_64 Fedora Core 4 - i386, x86_64 3. Problem description: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered two denial of service flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to hang or crash. (CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4338) Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several code execution flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337) Users of gzip should upgrade to this updated package, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filenames] where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the desired RPMs. Please note that this update is also available via yum and apt. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use yum issue: yum update or to use apt: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system. This assumes that you have yum or apt-get configured for obtaining Fedora Legacy content. Please visit http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs for directions on how to configure yum and apt-get. 5. Bug IDs fixed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211760 6. RPMs required: Fedora Core 3: SRPM: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/SRPMS/gzip-1.3.3-16.1.fc3.legacy.src.rpm i386: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/i386/gzip-1.3.3-16.1.fc3.legacy.i386.rpm x86_64: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/x86_64/gzip-1.3.3-16.1.fc3.legacy.x86_64.rpm Fedora Core 4: SRPM: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/4/updates/SRPMS/gzip-1.3.5-6.1.0.legacy.src.rpm i386: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/4/updates/i386/gzip-1.3.5-6.1.0.legacy.i386.rpm x86_64: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/4/updates/x86_64/gzip-1.3.5-6.1.0.legacy.x86_64.rpm 7. Verification: SHA1 sum Package Name --------------------------------------------------------------------- fc3: 803cef0b8d4e06f79ae9ce64aee63cdd761e87b6 fedora/3/updates/i386/gzip-1.3.3-16.1.fc3.legacy.i386.rpm 602ad6828a3388063db0c45f13c256d92b12cc51 fedora/3/updates/x86_64/gzip-1.3.3-16.1.fc3.legacy.x86_64.rpm 7f4737f9e627480ee211022b9dffc1da5696adda fedora/3/updates/SRPMS/gzip-1.3.3-16.1.fc3.legacy.src.rpm fc4: 1cf4530543c8f7da0d331f11388bb7517fa013e4 fedora/4/updates/i386/gzip-1.3.5-6.1.0.legacy.i386.rpm 17fb012aacf13fcf623c5f6447d4ba127ed4a780 fedora/4/updates/x86_64/gzip-1.3.5-6.1.0.legacy.x86_64.rpm b49360a81b5d4df62dbbb3b2b094515678f41a35 fedora/4/updates/SRPMS/gzip-1.3.5-6.1.0.legacy.src.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Fedora Legacy for security. Our key is available from http://www.fedoralegacy.org/about/security.php You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig -v If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the sha1sum with the following command: sha1sum 8. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4334 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4338 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4335 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4336 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4337 9. Contact: The Fedora Legacy security contact is . More project details at http://www.fedoralegacy.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------