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Scientific Linux: Unzip Security Update Addresses Low Severity Flaws

Calendar May 14, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory low severity file permissions Scientific Linux unzip update
Low: unzip security and bug fix update 
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:51:37 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA for unzip on SL4.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Low: unzip security and bug fix update
Issue date: 2007-05-01
CVE Names: CVE-2005-2475 CVE-2005-4667

A race condition was found in Unzip. Local users could use this flaw to
modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file
while it was being decompressed (CVE-2005-2475)

A buffer overflow was found in Unzip command line argument handling.
If a user could be tricked into running Unzip with a specially crafted long
file name, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with that user's
privileges. (CVE-2005-4667)

SRPMS:
 	unzip-5.51-9.EL4.5.src.rpm

i386:
 	unzip-5.51-9.EL4.5.i386.rpm

x86_64:
 	unzip-5.51-9.EL4.5.x86_64.rpm