applications/file

gzip - The GNU data compression program.

Website: http://www.gzip.org/
License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a
very commonly used data compression program.

Packages

gzip-1.3.3-18.el4_8.1.x86_64 [92 KiB] Changelog by Karel Klic (2010-01-14):
- Updated version to use Z-stream NVR Policy
gzip-1.3.3-16.rhel4.x86_64 [92 KiB] Changelog by Ivana Varekova (2006-09-06):
- fix bug 204676 (patches by Tavis Ormandy)
  - cve-2006-4334 - null dereference problem
  - cve-2006-4335 - buffer overflow problem
  - cve-2006-4336 - buffer underflow problem
  - cve-2006-4338 - infinite loop problem
  - cve-2006-4337 - buffer overflow problem
gzip-1.3.3-15.rhel4.x86_64 [91 KiB] Changelog by Ivana Varekova (2005-04-29):
- fix bug 156269 - CAN-2005-1228 directory traversal bug
 (using the patch from Ulf Harnhammar) (patch9)
- fix bug 155746 - CAN-2005-0988 Race condition in gzip (patch8)

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