DSA-3540-1 lhasa -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3540-1 lhasa -- security update

Date Reported:

03 Apr 2016

Affected Packages:

lhasa

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2347.

More information:

Marcin Noga discovered an integer underflow in Lhasa, a lzh archive decompressor, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed archive is processed.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.7-2+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.0+git3fe46-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lhasa packages.