gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200501-15.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200501-15">
  <title>UnRTF: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow in UnRTF allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by
    way of a specially crafted RTF file.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">app-text/unrtf</product>
  <announced>2005-01-10</announced>
  <revised count="01">2005-01-10</revised>
  <bug>74480</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/unrtf" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.19.3-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.19.3-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    UnRTF is a utility to convert files in the Rich Text Format into
    other formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    An unchecked strcat() in unrtf may overflow the bounds of a static
    buffer.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Using a specially crafted file, possibly delivered by e-mail or
    over the web, an attacker may execute arbitrary code with the
    permissions of the user running UnRTF.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All unrtf users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/unrtf-0.19.3-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/unrtf.txt">Original Announcement</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-01-08T19:54:59Z">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-01-08T19:55:37Z">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-01-09T05:15:13Z">
    dmargoli
  </metadata>
</glsa>