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Fedora: FEDORA-2004-400 Critical: Zip Buffer Overflow Issue

A buffer overflow has been found in zip which will lead to a buffer overflow when a user try to create a zip archive which contains very long filenames.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-400 2004-11-08 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : zip Version : 2.3 Release : 26.3 Summary : A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP. Description : The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A buffer overflow has been found in zip which will lead to a buffer overflow when a user try to create a zip archive which contains very long filenames. See: November/028379.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger 2.3-26.3 - Rebuild for FC-3 * Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger 2.3-26.2 - Fix buffer overflow. #138230 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: bc2cbf480d0c179477c860b28eed69de SRPMS/zip-2.3-26.3.src.rpm f838848328a58c46c383b71cbcf3ed76 x86_64/zip-2.3-26.3.x86_64.rpm 87d6165bfdde40a5c74fd8583a338681 x86_64/debug/zip- debuginfo-2.3-26.3.x86_64.rpm c655032e0d8b15079b1de6ab133f05fe i386/zip-2.3-26.3.i386.rpm edd6fddc5e2e721866fa5bd28e056996 i386/debug/zip- debuginfo-2.3-26.3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. fedora-announce-list Info Page . An exploit in zip version 2.3-26.3 for Fedora affects the generation of zip archives. Discover steps to mitigate this issue.. buffer overflow,Fedora update,zip utility. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 08, 2004 •Critical Fedora