<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200603-12"> <title>zoo: Buffer overflow</title> <synopsis> A buffer overflow in zoo may be exploited to execute arbitrary when creating archives of specially crafted directories and files. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">zoo</product> <announced>2006-03-16</announced> <revised count="01">2006-03-16</revised> <bug>125622</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-arch/zoo" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.10-r2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.10-r2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi. </p> </background> <description> <p> zoo is vulnerable to a new buffer overflow due to insecure use of the strcpy() function when trying to create an archive from certain directories or filenames. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> An attacker could exploit this issue by enticing a user to create a zoo archive of specially crafted directories and filenames, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running zoo. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All zoo users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/zoo-2.10-r2"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183426">RedHat Bug #183426</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1269">CVE-2006-1269</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-03-11T11:35:08Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-12T16:19:21Z"> DerCorny </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-12T17:50:06Z"> DerCorny </metadata> </glsa>