About:
gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. The GNU Project uses it as the standard compression program for its system.

Author:
Jean-loup Gailly [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.74/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gzip.org
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4a.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Compression

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2.4a	12-Mar-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.3.5	13-Jan-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

SuSE: New gzip packages fix remote system compromise by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Sep 26th 2006 15:31 Debian: New gzip packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 22nd 2006 03:32 Red Hat: Updated gzip packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 22nd 2006 03:20 Debian: New gzip packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 11th 2005 13:51

Red Hat: New gzip packages fix multiple security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jun 13th 2005 06:02 Debian: New gzip packages fix insecure temporary file creation by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Jun 6th 2003 23:48 Debian: New gzip packages fix potential buffer overflow by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jan 13th 2002 07:44

 Comments

[»] gzip buffer overflow revision
by Norm Reitzel - Mar 14th 2002 14:41:59

I laud the speed with which the buffer overflow problem was addressed, but the revision.h file has not been altered to reflect this change. While this is an administrative-only event, it makes it impossible to identify which version of gzip is in use.

It really needs fixed, guys.

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[»] Re: gzip buffer overflow revision
by Veerakumar - May 19th 2005 00:06:35


> I laud the speed with which the buffer

> overflow problem was addressed, but the

> revision.h file has not been altered to

> reflect this change. While this is an

> administrative-only event, it makes it

> impossible to identify which version of

> gzip is in use.

>

> It really needs fixed, guys.

What are you talking about. What version. You can see the version by typing gzip --version.

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