Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ncompress:
An integer underflow leading to array index error was found in the way gzip used to decompress files / archives, compressed with the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted LZW compressed gzip archive, which once decompressed by a local, unsuspecting user would lead to gzip crash, or, potentially to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running gzip (CVE-2010-0001).
The updated packages have been upgraded to the 4.2.4.4 version which is not vulnerable to this issue.
Affected
ncompress on Mandriva Linux 2010.1,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5,
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-0001 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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