Bug 152571 - CAN-2004-1772 buffer overflow with -o option
Summary: CAN-2004-1772 buffer overflow with -o option
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sharutils
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20040406,source=cve...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-30 14:16 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-26 16:31:28 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:377 0 low SHIPPED_LIVE Low: sharutils security update 2005-04-26 04:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-03-30 14:16:09 UTC 
Stack-based buffer overflow in shar in GNU sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to
execute arbitrary code via a long -o command line argument.

To test this:
shar -o `perl -e 'print "A"x2000'`

A patch is located here:
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-03-30 14:16:55 UTC 
This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 2 Ngo Than 2005-03-30 23:18:06 UTC 
it's fixed in sharutils-4.2.1-8.8.x (rhel-2) and sharutils-4.2.1-16.1 (rhel3)
Comment 3 Jay Turner 2005-03-31 06:21:55 UTC 
sharutils-4.2.1-16.1 is in 3.0E-errata-candidate
sharutils-4.2.1-8.8.x is in 2.1AS-errata-candidate

None of these have been released in errata, as the most recent errata was for
2.1 only and included sharutils-4.2.1-8.7.x.  Reopening this issue.
Comment 4 Than Ngo 2005-04-14 11:13:46 UTC 
it's fixed in sharutils-4.2.1-8.9.x (rhel-2) and sharutils-4.2.1-16.2 (rhel3)
Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2005-04-26 16:31:28 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-2005-377.html
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