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[GLSA-200502-32] UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-32
(UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities)

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

Impact

A possible hacker could exploit the buffer overflows to execute
malicious code or the directory traversals to overwrite arbitrary
files.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

References:
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0160
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0161

Solution:
All UnAce users should upgrade to the latest available 1.2
version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/unace-1.2b-r1"

Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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