Secunia Research: WinACE ARJ Archive Handling Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Research 23/02/2006
- WinACE ARJ Archive Handling Buffer Overflow -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
* WinACE Version 2.60
Prior versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in WinACE, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when reading an
overly large ARJ header block into a fixed-sized heap buffer. This can
be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a
malicious ARJ archive is opened.
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4) Solution
The vulnerability will be fixed in version 2.61.
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5) Time Table
26/10/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
31/10/2005 - Initial vendor reply.
31/10/2005 - Vendor sends fixed version for testing.
15/11/2005 - Vendor reminder.
23/01/2006 - Vendor reminder.
21/02/2006 - Vendor reminder.
23/02/2006 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Tan Chew Keong, Secunia Research.
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7) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2006-0813 for the vulnerability.
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-67/advisory/
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