<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200704-05"> <title>zziplib: Buffer Overflow</title> <synopsis> The zziplib library contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to user-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">zziplib</product> <announced>2007-04-03</announced> <revised count="01">2007-04-03</revised> <bug>171441</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-libs/zziplib" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.13.49</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.13.49</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> The zziplib library is a lightweight library for extracting data from files archived in a single zip file. </p> </background> <description> <p> dmcox dmcox discovered a boundary error in the zzip_open_shared_io() function from zzip/file.c . </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to run a zziplib function with an overly long string as an argument which would trigger the buffer overflow and may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All zziplib users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.49"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1614">CVE-2007-1614</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-03-24T20:39:36Z"> aetius </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-03-26T21:59:00Z"> falco </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-03-29T21:14:54Z"> falco </metadata> </glsa>