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RHEL 2.1 / 3 : lha (RHSA-2004:178)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 12491

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated LHA package that fixes several security vulnerabilities is now available.

LHA is an archiving and compression utility for LHarc format archives.

Ulf Harnhammar discovered two stack-based buffer overflows and two directory traversal flaws in LHA. An attacker could exploit the buffer overflows by creating a carefully crafted LHA archive in such a way that arbitrary code would be executed when the archive is tested or extracted by a victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0234 to this issue. An attacker could exploit the directory traversal issues to create files as the victim outside of the expected directory. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0235 to this issue.

Users of LHA should update to this updated package which contains backported patches not vulnerable to these issues.

Red Hat would like to thank Ulf Harnhammar for disclosing and providing test cases and patches for these issues.

Solution

Update the affected lha package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2004-0234

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2004-0235

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:178

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 12491

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2004-178.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lha, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0234, CVE-2004-0235

BID: 10243

RHSA: 2004:178