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zoo -- stack based buffer overflow

Affected packages
zoo < 2.10.1_2

Details

VuXML ID d9307a41-c4d7-11da-b2fb-000e0c2e438a
Discovery 2006-02-22
Entry 2006-04-05
Modified 2006-04-06

Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux report a vulnerability within the zoo archiver. The vulnerability which is present in the fullpath() function (from the misc.c file) is caused by improper checking of user supplied data. The data returned to the buffer can be up to 512 bytes, while the buffer is created to hold 256 bytes. This could result in a buffer overflow which could allow remote code execution.

References

Bugtraq ID 16790
CVE Name CVE-2006-0855
URL http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects/zoo-advisory.txt