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Fedora Core 3: 2005-845 Moderate: Resolution for Archive Unzip TOCTOU Issue

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This enhancement addresses a race condition vulnerability in the unzip utility for Fedora Core 3, bolstering system safety via meticulous modifications.
This update fixes TOCTOU issue in unzip.

Summary

The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip

archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip

utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and

unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)'s PKZIP

for MS-DOS, but the programs' options and default behaviors do differ

in some respects.

This update fixes TOCTOU issue in unzip.

- fix bug 164928 - TOCTOU issue in unzip

1986eb3284676935cf5a089c9895f530 SRPMS/unzip-5.51-4.fc3.src.rpm

88158ea088b919096576f2bf1067c93c x86_64/unzip-5.51-4.fc3.x86_64.rpm

33f279a5938435cba79e1e9926548572 x86_64/debug/unzip-debuginfo-5.51-4.fc3.x86_64.rpm

3cbb410a6e2ea6e2af8d60ab9cc4bfce i386/unzip-5.51-4.fc3.i386.rpm

044b3d0355e3d624b0f0c08b0bfef950 i386/debug/unzip-debuginfo-5.51-4.fc3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Name: unzip
Version: 5.51
Release: 4.fc3
Summary: A utility for unpacking zip files.

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