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breach watch Ubuntu security notices September 07, 2026

USN-8733-1: Gzip vulnerabilities

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Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin Wyczechowski discovered that Gzip's gzexe utility created temporary files in an insecure manner when mktemp was unavailable. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2026-41991) Elias Hasas, Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin Wyczechowski discovered that Gzip incorrectly handled certain compressed files.

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