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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-32 Normal: UnAce Buffer Overflow and Directory Risk

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2005
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Gentoo's UnAce vulnerabilities: an in-depth look at buffer overflow and directory traversal issues outlined in GLSA 200802-15 for affected users.
UnAce is vulnerable to several buffer overflow and directory traversal attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-32 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities Date: February 28, 2005 Bugs: #81958 ID: 200502-32

Synopsis ======= UnAce is vulnerable to several buffer overflow and directory traversal attacks.
Background ========= UnAce is an utility to extract, view and test the contents of an ACE archive.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/unace <= 1.2b *>= 1.2b-r1 app-arch/unace >= 2.0 *>= 1.2b-r1
========== Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflo...

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