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Gentoo: GLSA-200511-10 Normal: RAR Format String and Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2005
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ZIP compression vulnerabilities and memory corruption issues permit unauthorized code execution in Fedora. Immediate patching advised.
RAR contains a format string error and a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be used to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: RAR: Format string and buffer overflow vulnerabilities Date: November 13, 2005 Bugs: #111926 ID: 200511-10

Synopsis ======= RAR contains a format string error and a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be used to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= RAR is a powerful archive manager that can decompress RAR, ZIP and other files, and can create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/rar < 3.5.1 >= 3.5.1
========== Tan Chew Keong reported about two vulnerabilities found in RAR:
* A forma...

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