UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

BID:9758

Info

UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9758
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0333
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 27 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 03:06AM
Credit: This issue was announced by iDEFENSE.
Vulnerable: WinZip WinZip 8.1 SR-1
WinZip WinZip 8.1
WinZip WinZip 8.0
WinZip WinZip 7.0
UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.19
+ OpenPKG OpenPKG 2.0
UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.18
+ OpenPKG OpenPKG 1.3
OpenPKG OpenPKG Current
Gentoo Linux 1.4 _rc3
Gentoo Linux 1.4 _rc2
Gentoo Linux 1.4 _rc1
Gentoo Linux 1.4
Not Vulnerable: WinZip WinZip 9.0
UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.20
Convert-UUlib Convert-UUlib 1.0.1
+ UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.20
Convert-UUlib Convert-UUlib 1.0
+ UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.20

Discussion

UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

A buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in UUDeview. This issue exists in the MIME parsing routines.

It is reported that this issue may be exploited via a malicious MIME archive that specifies excessively long strings for various parameters. This could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a system in the context of a user who opens a malicious MIME archive using the UUDeview program.

It should be noted that UUDeview is shipped as a component of WinZip.

Exploit / POC

UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

The reporters of this vulnerability possess proof-of-concept exploit code that is not publicly available or known to be circulating in the wild.

The following exploit has been provided by snooq to leverage this issue against WinZip on Windows 2000 and XP with SP1:

Solution / Fix

UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Solution:
UUDeview has released an updated version to address this issue.

This issue has been addressed in WinZip 9.0. Users are strongly urged to upgrade.

Gentoo Linux have released an advisory (200403-05) and updates to address this issue. Gentoo users are advised to upgrade to UUDeview 0.5.20 by emerging the updated packages as follows:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=app-text/uudeview-0.5.20"
# emerge ">=app-text/uudeview-0.5.20"

OpenPKG have released a security advisory (OpenPKG-SA-2004.006) and fixes to address this issue. Please see referenced advisory for further details.


UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.18

UUDeview UUDeview 0.5.19

WinZip WinZip 7.0

WinZip WinZip 8.0

WinZip WinZip 8.1 SR-1

WinZip WinZip 8.1

References

UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

References:
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