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UnAce: buffer overflow and directory traversal

Package(s):unace CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0160 CAN-2005-0161
Created:February 28, 2005 Updated:June 17, 2005
Description: Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives (CAN-2005-0160). He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks, if an archive contains "./.." sequences or absolute filenames (CAN-2005-0161).
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:016 2005-06-17
Gentoo 200502-32 2005-02-28
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