CVE-2006-4336
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 6.0%EU EUVD
Buffer underflow in the build_tree function in unpack.c in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted leaf count table that causes a write to a negative index.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 6.0% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4324)
- Published
- September 19, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4324 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gzip / gzip
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204676
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21996
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22002
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22009(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22012(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22017(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22027
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22033(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22034(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22043(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22085
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22101
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22435
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22487
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22661
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23153
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23156
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23679
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24435
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24636
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip.asc
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-13.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016883
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.555852
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102766-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-218.htm
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-24.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/554780(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:167
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_56_gzip.html
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.020-gzip.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0667.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446426/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450078/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451324/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462007/100/0/threaded
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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