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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS to 9.10: 889-1 Critical Gzip Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2010
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Essential patch released for Ubuntu mitigates gzip vulnerabilities linked to improperly formatted files, which could enable unauthorized code execution threats.
It was discovered that gzip incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed files

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