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Compression Plus ZOO Archive Processing Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21714
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Release Date:
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2006-09-01
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Last Update:
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2006-09-11
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Compression Plus 4.x
Compression Plus 5.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4554 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Compression Plus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in CP5DLL32.DLL during the processing of ZOO archives. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a malicious ZOO archive with an overly large size field in the header.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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Solution:
Apply patch.
http://www.becubed.com/downloads/compsetup.exe
Provided and/or discovered by:
Michael Ligh, Greg Sinclair, and Amanda Wright.
Changelog:
2006-09-03: Added version 4.x as affected.
2006-09-11: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Mnin.org:
http://www.mnin.org/advisories/2006_cp5_tweed.pdf
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