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×Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-12
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: zoo: Buffer overflow
Date: March 16, 2006
Bugs: #125622
ID: 200603-12
Synopsis
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A buffer overflow in zoo may be exploited to execute arbitrary when
creating archives of specially crafted directories and files.
Background
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zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files,
written by Rahul Dhesi.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-arch/zoo < 2.10-r2 >= 2.10-r2
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zoo is vulnerable to a new buffer overflow due to insecure use of the
strcpy() function when trying to create an archive from certain
dir...
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