MiniGZip - Controls File_Compress Buffer Overflow

Author: starcadi
type: dos
platform: windows
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date_added: 2007-03-14 
date_updated: 2013-11-21 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2007-1657;OSVDB-43550 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22964/info

The 'minigzip' tool is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer.

A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial of service.

minigzip `perl -e 'print 'A'x1050'