ARJ Software UNARJ Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:11436

Info

ARJ Software UNARJ Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11436
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-1027
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 16 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 05:56PM
Credit: Disclosure of this issue is credited to Doubles.
Vulnerable: Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
Gentoo Linux
Avaya CVLAN
ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.65
ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.64
+ Redhat Fedora Core2
 ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.63 a
+ Redhat Fedora Core2
 + Redhat Fedora Core1
 + Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
 ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.62
+ Redhat Fedora Core2
 ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.43
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

ARJ Software UNARJ Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Reportedly ARJ Software UNARJ is affected by a remote directory traversal vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize or validate file names prior to compression or decompression.

This issue may allow an attacker to arbitrarily overwrite files with a user's privileges when a malicious compressed file is decompressed with the affected application.

Exploit / POC

ARJ Software UNARJ Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

ARJ Software UNARJ Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
RedHat Fedora Linux has released advisory FEDORA-2004-414 along with fixes dealing with this and another issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200411-29 to address this issue. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following commands with superuser privileges:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/unarj-2.63a-r2"
Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

Red Hat has released an advisory (RHSA-2005:007-05) to address various issues in unarj. Please see the advisory in Web references for more information.

Debian has released an advisory (DSA 652-1) to address issues in unarj. Please see the advisory in the reference section for more information.

Avaya has released advisory ASA-2005-022 to document the affected versions of Avaya products. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

Fedora has released an advisory (Fedora Legacy Update Advisory FLSA:2272) to address unarj issues in Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386, Red Hat Linux 9 - i386, and Fedora Core 1 - i386. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.


ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.43

ARJ Software Inc. UNARJ 2.63 a

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ARJ Software UNARJ Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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