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UNARJ Filename Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13177
Release Date: 2004-11-12
Popularity: 7,228 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:UNARJ 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0947


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in UNARJ, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of long filenames in archives. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a malicious archive with a specially crafted path.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution:
The vendor reports that UNARJ is just a demonstration product and should not be used on production systems.

The vendor recommends users to use ARJ instead.

Provided and/or discovered by:
First reported in a Fedora advisory.

Original Advisory:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138468


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