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Slackware 10.2 SSA:2006-142-02 Critical Zoo Archiver Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2006
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for Slackware tackle the potential vulnerability in the zoo archiver and offer a non-security enhancement for the eject utility.
New bin packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue with the zoo archive program

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bin-10.2-i486-2_10.2.tgz: Upgraded to eject-2.1.4 to fix problems with 2.6 kernels (bugfix). Patched a security problem in zoo's fullpath() function that was reported by Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux. At first this didn't seem like much as zoo is old and hardly used, but there are virus scanning programs that scan zoo archives. It is a possible problem on any system running zoo like this in an automated way, and (of course) could also cause problems if a user were to open a malicious zoo archive manually. (though I'd be pretty suspicious if someone were to mail me anything using "zoo" in 2006...) (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/bin-10.2-i486-2_10.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:

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Slackware 10.2 package: 0847080265c36315c106cdeaaa8be326 bin-10.2-i486-2_10.2.tgz
Slackware -current package: 615f7396cdf0762c92ba8d866d5625cf bin-11.0-i486-1.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bin-10.2-i486-2_10.2.tgz

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