Slackware: 2004-125-01 Moderate: Lha Directory Traversal Threat
slackware
May 4, 2004
New bin- packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix buffer overflows and directory traversal vulnerabilities in the 'lha' archive utility
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Tue May 4 13:11:26 PDT 2004 patches/packages/bin-8.5.0-i486-2.tgz: Fixed buffer overflows and directory traversal vulnerabilities in the 'lha' archive utility. Sites using 'lha' should upgrade to the new bin package right away. For more details, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-CAN-2004-0234 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-CAN-2004-0235 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
Updated package for Slackware 8.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/bin-8.3.0-i386-3.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/bin-8.5.0-i386-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/bin-8.5.0-i486-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 8.1 package:
3384ae4bc983d18ee003a8e2445b7879 bin-8.3.0-i386-3.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package:
809e3c75d913a39e886f3a38a41e36f3 bin-8.5.0-i386-2.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package:
3db010726fafe7112ff509bd6c1c2909 bin-8.5.0-i486-2.tgz
Slackware -current package:
572f9835f4e2833688482ce866a7b7d4 bin-9.0.0-i486-2.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bin-8.5.0-i486-2.tgz
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