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Bug 138835

Summary:	CAN-2004-1027 unarj directory traversal issue
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	unarj	Assignee:	Lon Hohberger <lhh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	Security
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Description Josh Bressers 2004-11-11 14:47:02 UTC

This message was posted to full-disclosure

http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027348.html

after decoding it, it basically says there is a directory traversal
hole in unarj.

It is possible for an attacker to create a specially crafted arj
archive, which when a user extracts with the x flag, it is possible
for a file to be placed anywhere the user running arj has write
permissions.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2004-11-11 14:57:25 UTC

attachment 106504 [details]
contains a demo exploit for this issue.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-01-12 18:38:56 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-007.html