FKIE_CVE-2006-4336
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-09-19 21:07 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:28
Severity
Summary
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.
References
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