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Gentoo: GLSA 200411-29 Normal Severity: Unarj Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The latest Gentoo GLSA 202303-14 highlights security vulnerabilities associated with unzip tools, which pose significant risks including data corruption and unsafe code execution scenarios.
unarj contains a buffer overflow and a directory traversal vulnerability

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-29 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: unarj: Long filenames buffer overflow and a path traversal vulnerability Date: November 19, 2004 Bugs: #70966 ID: 200411-29

Synopsis ======= unarj contains a buffer overflow and a directory traversal vulnerability. This could lead to overwriting of arbitrary files or the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= unarj is an ARJ archive decompressor.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/unarj < 2.63a-r2 >= 2.63a-r2
========== unarj has a bounds checking vulnerability within the handling of long filenames in archives. It a...

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