National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4667
Original release date:12/31/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when it is invoked from other programs.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/05/2007)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178960
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.
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External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-248-2
Type: Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-248-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0006
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA:180159
Type: Patch Information
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1012
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:050
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 15968
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0203
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 22400
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25098
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20051219 Unzip *ALL* verisons ;))
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:050