[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5

Ivana Varekova varekova at redhat.com
Tue Oct 10 15:55:58 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-989
2006-10-10
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : gzip
Version     : 1.3.5
Release     : 7.fc5
Summary     : The GNU data compression program.
Description :
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a
very commonly used data compression program.

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* Wed Sep 20 2006 Ivana Varekova <varekova at redhat.com> 1.3.5-7.fc5
- fix bug 204676 (patches by Tavis Ormandy)
  - cve-2006-4334 - null dereference problem
  - cve-2006-4335 - buffer overflow problem
  - cve-2006-4336 - buffer underflow problem
  - cve-2006-4338 - infinite loop problem
  - cve-2006-4337 - buffer overflow problem

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

058b352c889d357d2f369d8358643b16820c5e22  SRPMS/gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5.src.rpm
058b352c889d357d2f369d8358643b16820c5e22  noarch/gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5.src.rpm
a9679679039bf6a7646dc18ab267b87a905aee4d  ppc/debug/gzip-debuginfo-1.3.5-7.fc5.ppc.rpm
e9199ea8e46e2e3ead27eae3a1159f4fb47c8d1a  ppc/gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5.ppc.rpm
cc837290ccd3b1427d0121cc668fdf4e282e39f3  x86_64/debug/gzip-debuginfo-1.3.5-7.fc5.x86_64.rpm
d7a7b184f5b98b58ea680fe49414b5b4f88b4ac4  x86_64/gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5.x86_64.rpm
a9450c087c726cb7dba45c97a2507706057a3d84  i386/debug/gzip-debuginfo-1.3.5-7.fc5.i386.rpm
7c1a6092d74f53916a9046c118a25b386993212e  i386/gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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