CVE-2005-4667

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-12-19
Bugzilla:
1617861: CVE-2005-4667 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when it is invoked from other programs.

Find out more about CVE-2005-4667 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178960

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (unzip) RHBA-2007:0418 2007-07-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (unzip) RHSA-2007:0203 2007-05-01

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