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Redhat : RHN Errata Alert: An updated lha package fixes security vulnerability
Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to
one or more of the systems you have registered:
Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/errata/errata_details.pxt?eid=2302
Security Advisory - RHSA-2004:323-09
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Summary:
An updated lha package fixes security vulnerability
An updated lha package that fixes a buffer overflow is now available.
Description:
LHA is an archiving and compression utility for LHarc format archives.
Lukasz Wojtow discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in all versions
of lha up to and including version 1.14. A carefully created archive could
allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code when a victim extracts or tests
the archive. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0769 to this issue.
Buffer overflows were discovered in the command line processing of all
versions of lha up to and including version 1.14. If a malicious user
could trick a victim into passing a specially crafted command line to the
lha command, it is possible that arbitrary code could be executed. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
the names CAN-2004-0771 and CAN-2004-0694 to these issues.
Thomas Biege discovered a shell meta character command execution
vulnerability in all versions of lha up to and including 1.14. An attacker
could create a directory with shell meta characters in its name which could
lead to arbitrary command execution. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0745 to
this issue.
Users of lha should update to this updated package which contains
backported patches and is not vulnerable to these issues.
References:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108668791510153
http://lw.ftw.zamosc.pl/lha-exploit.txt
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Taking Action
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- run the Update Agent on each affected server.
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Affected Systems List
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This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that
this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the
package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should run
'up2date -p' as root on the system in question to refresh your software profile.
There are 22 affected systems registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for
which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown).
Release Arch Profile Name
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3AS i686 durian.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 br.nac.uci.edu
3WS x86_64 m33.ps.uci.edu
3AS i686 hydra.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 p02.es.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 mpc64.nacs.uci.edu
3AS athlon a06.es.uci.edu
3AS i686 mothra.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 narg.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 vesta.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 cpl-console.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 pxe.es.uci.edu
3WS i686 node-xeon-4
3WS i686 node-xeon-5
3WS i686 node-xeon-10
3AS athlon a11.es.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 iwt01.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 iwt03.nac.uci.edu
3AS athlon rama.nac.uci.edu
3AS athlon tw1.ps.uci.edu
3AS athlon tw2.biomol.uci.edu
3WS i686 pong.nac.uci.edu
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