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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200410-01">
+ <title>sharutils: Buffer overflows in shar.c and unshar.c</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ sharutils contains two buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to
+ arbitrary code execution.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">sharutils</product>
+ <announced>2004-10-01</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
+ <bug>65773</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-arch/sharutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.2.1-r10</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="le">4.2.1-r9</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ sharutils contains utilities to manage shell archives.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ sharutils contains two buffer overflows. Ulf Harnhammar discovered a
+ buffer overflow in shar.c, where the length of data returned by the wc
+ command is not checked. Florian Schilhabel discovered another buffer
+ overflow in unshar.c.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary
+ code as the user running one of the sharutils programs.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All sharutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+
+ # emerge -pv "&gt;=app-arch/sharutils-4.2.1-r10"
+ # emerge "&gt;=app-arch/sharutils-4.2.1-r10"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265904">Debian Bug #265904</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1773">CVE-2004-1773</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-09-30T04:54:59Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-09-30T18:01:09Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-10-01T08:08:15Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>