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Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-399 (zip)

From:  Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
Subject:  [Security] Fedora Core 2 Update: zip-2.3-26.2
Date:  Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:10:09 -0500

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-399 2004-11-08 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : zip Version : 2.3 Release : 26.2 Summary : A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP. Description : The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A buffer overflow has been found in zip which will lead to a buffer overflow when a user try to create a zip archive which contains very long filenames. See: http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-No... --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> 2.3-26.2 - Fix buffer overflow. #138230 * Mon Jun 21 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> 2.3-24 - Extend max file/archive size to 2^32-8193 (4294959103) bytes - Include better debugging output for configure script * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> - rebuilt --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... c8e36306afa17246d2caeabc498cbc62 SRPMS/zip-2.3-26.2.src.rpm cd999c652e0d51a7fb349b2867a83662 x86_64/zip-2.3-26.2.x86_64.rpm 7f76d52b21459d5945075e0e6780ff2a x86_64/debug/zip-debuginfo-2.3-26.2.x86_64.rpm c50729dab4fb95168a9897397b08e55a i386/zip-2.3-26.2.i386.rpm 0a9e2a3140181810fcde221d74f6e121 i386/debug/zip-debuginfo-2.3-26.2.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list


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