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Fedora Zip Critical Buffer Overflow Issue FEDORA-2004-400

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2004
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An exploit in zip version 2.3-26.3 for Fedora affects the generation of zip archives. Discover steps to mitigate this issue.
A buffer overflow has been found in zip which will lead to a buffer overflow when a user try to create a zip archive which contains very long filenames.

Summary

The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is

analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and

is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for

MS-DOS systems).

Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip

program.

Update Information:

A buffer overflow has been found in zip which will lead to a buffer overflow when a user try to create a zip archive which contains very long filenames.

See:

November/028379.html * Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> 2.3-26.3

- Rebuild for FC-3

* Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> 2.3-26.2

- Fix buffer overflow. #138230


This update can be downloaded from:


bc2cbf480d0c179477c860b28eed69de SRPMS/zip-2.3-26.3.src.rpm f838848328a58c46c383b71cbcf3ed76 x86_64/zip-2.3-26.3.x86_64.rpm 87d6165bfdde40a5c74fd8583a338681 x86_64/debug/zip- debuginfo-2.3-26.3.x86_64.rpm c655032e0d8b15079b1de6ab133f05fe i386/zip-2.3-26.3.i386.rpm edd6fddc5e2e721866fa5bd28e056996 i386/debug/zip- debuginfo-2.3-26.3.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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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-400 2004-11-08
Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : zip Version : 2.3 Release : 26.3 Summary : A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP. Description : The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems).
Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program.

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Product: Fedora Core 3
Name: zip
Version: 2.3
Release: 26.3
Summary: A file compression and packaging utility compatible with

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