DSA-991-1 zoo -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-991-1 zoo -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

10 Mar 2006

Affected Packages:

zoo

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16790.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0855.

More information:

Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux discovered a buffer overflow in zoo, a utility to manipulate zoo archives, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when unpacking a specially crafted zoo archive.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-9woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-11sarge0.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-17.

We recommend that you upgrade your zoo package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/non-free/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-9woody0_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-11sarge0_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.