DSA-344-2 unzip -- directory traversal

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2003-0282  

A directory traversal vulnerability in UnZip 5.50 allows attackers to bypass a check for relative pathnames ("../") by placing certain invalid characters between the two "." characters. The fix which was implemented in DSA-344-1 may not have protected against all methods of exploiting this vulnerability. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.50-1woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 5.50-3. We recommend that you update your unzip package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-344-2 unzip -- directory traversal

Date Reported:
08 Jul 2003
Affected Packages:
unzip
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7550.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0282.
More information:

A directory traversal vulnerability in UnZip 5.50 allows attackers to bypass a check for relative pathnames ("../") by placing certain invalid characters between the two "." characters. The fix which was implemented in DSA-344-1 may not have protected against all methods of exploiting this vulnerability.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.50-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 5.50-3.

We recommend that you update your unzip package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.50-1woody2_sparc.deb

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

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