Gentoo Linux GLSA 200411-16 Normal: Zip Buffer Overflow Risk
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November 9, 2004
zip contains a buffer overflow when creating a ZIP archive of files with very long path names
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: zip: Path name buffer overflow
Date: November 09, 2004
Bugs: #70227
ID: 200411-16
Synopsis
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zip contains a buffer overflow when creating a ZIP archive of files
with very long path names. This could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
Background
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zip is a compression and file packaging utility.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-arch/zip <= 2.3-r3 >= 2.3-r4
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zip does not check the resulting path length when doing recursive
folder compression.
Impact
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An attacker could exploit this by enticing anoth...
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