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FS#10067 - unzip 5.52-3 potential arbitrary code execution

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paul Bredbury (brebs) - Thursday, 03 April 2008, 00:17 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 05 April 2008, 14:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Security
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi, unzip 5.52-3 has a potential security flaw:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0888
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213761

Download the patch:
wget -O unzip-5.5.2-CVE-2008-0888.patch http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=146443

For reassurance, this exact patch is in Ubuntu:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/unzip (unzip_5.52-10ubuntu2.diff.gz)

Enclosed is the required PKGBUILD diff.
   PKGBUILD.diff (0.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Saturday, 05 April 2008, 14:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in unzip-5.52-4
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 03 April 2008, 18:33 GMT
I'll try and address this tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for pointing it out.

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