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zziplib: buffer overflow

Package(s):zziplib CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1614
Created:April 4, 2007 Updated:September 5, 2007
Description: dmcox discovered a boundary error in the zzip_open_shared_io() function from zzip/file.c . A remote attacker could entice a user to run a zziplib function with an overly long string as an argument which would trigger the buffer overflow and may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Debian-Testing DTSA-56-1 2007-09-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:093 2007-04-23
Gentoo 200704-05 2007-04-03
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