CVE-2010-0001
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.8%EU EUVD
Integer underflow in the unlzw function in unlzw.c in gzip before 1.4 on 64-bit platforms, as used in ncompress and probably others, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive that uses LZW compression, leading to an array index error.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 4.8% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0033)
- Published
- January 29, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0033 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
- gnu / gzip
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=a3db5806d012082b9e25cc36d09f19cd736a468f
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
- http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/#status
- http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6153
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38220(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38223(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38225(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38232(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40551
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40655
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40689
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023490
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1974
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2074
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:019
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:020
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:152
- http://www.osvdb.org/61869
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0061.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-889-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0185(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1796
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1872
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554418
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10546
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7511
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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