CVE-2006-4337

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the make_table function in the LHZ component in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted decoding table in a GZIP archive.

Affected products

Gzip: 1.3.5

References

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
http://secunia.com/advisories/22012
http://secunia.com/advisories/22017
http://secunia.com/advisories/22027
http://secunia.com/advisories/22033
http://secunia.com/advisories/22034

Get alerted when CVE-2006-4337 or the next vulnerability affects your stack