CVE-2006-4338

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

unlzh.c in the LHZ component in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted 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

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