An UnAce security update is available for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-32
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal
vulnerabilities
Date: February 28, 2005
Bugs: #81958
ID: 200502-32

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Synopsis
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UnAce is vulnerable to several buffer overflow and directory traversal attacks.



Background
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UnAce is an utility to extract, view and test the contents of an ACE archive.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-arch/unace <= 1.2b *>= 1.2b-r1
app-arch/unace >= 2.0 *>= 1.2b-r1

Description
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Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives (CAN-2005-0160). He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks, if an archive contains "./.." sequences or absolute filenames (CAN-2005-0161).

Impact
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An attacker could exploit the buffer overflows to execute malicious code or the directory traversals to overwrite arbitrary files.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All UnAce users should upgrade to the latest available 1.2 version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/unace-1.2b-r1"

References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0160
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0160
[ 2 ] CAN-2005-0161
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0161

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-32.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0