Gentoo: 200410-01 Normal: Sharutils Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: sharutils: Buffer overflows in shar.c and unshar.c Date: October 01, 2004 Bugs: #65773 ID: 200410-01

Synopsis ======= sharutils contains two buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= sharutils contains utilities to manage shell archives.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/sharutils <= 4.2.1-r9 >= 4.2.1-r10
========== sharutils contains two buffer overflows. Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in shar.c, where the length of data returned by the wc command is not checked. Flori...