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Gentoo update for ncompress
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12779
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Release Date:
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2004-10-11
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Last Update:
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2004-12-14
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Popularity:
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6,662 views
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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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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2001-1413
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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for ncompress. This fixes an old vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors within the handling of command line options in "compress" and "uncompress". This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying e.g. a specially crafted, overly long filename.
Successful exploitation can lead to execution of arbitrary code in context of the process using the ncompress utility.
Solution:
Update to "app-arch/ncompress-4.2.4-r1" or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Pavel Kankovsky
Changelog:
2004-12-14: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-08.xml
Other References:
US-CERT VU#176363:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/176363
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