Description: A vulnerability has been reported in PowerArchiver, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling "BlackHole" archives. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted "BlackHole" archive containing an overly long filename.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 10.20.21.
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Provided and/or discovered by: Fourteenforty Research Institute, Inc.
Changelog: 2007-10-05: Updated the credits and the "Description" section with additional information. Added additional affected versions.
2007-10-09: Added CVE reference.
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