Design/Logic Flaw

Unreal Commander 0.92 build 565 and 573 writes portions of heap memory into local files when extracting from an archive with malformed size information in a file header, which might allow user-assisted attackers to obtain sensitive information memory contents by reading the extracted files. NOTE:...

CVE-2007-4547

Unreal Commander 0.92 build 565 and 573 is vulnerable to a heap-memory leakage issue during extraction from archives with malformed size info in the file header. The affected component writes portions of heap memory into local files, potentially enabling a user with sufficient privileges or acces...

CVE-2006-5963: Undefined Security Weakness

Directory traversal vulnerability in PentaZip 8.5.1.190 and PentaSuite-PRO 8.5.1.221 allows user-assisted remote attackers to extract files to arbitrary pathnames via a ../ dot dot slash in a filename...

Debian DSA-846-1 : cpio - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in cpio, a program to manage archives of files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-1111 Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in setting the file permissions of files extracted from cpio...

GLSA-200506-16 : cpio: Directory traversal vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200506-16 cpio: Directory traversal vulnerability A vulnerability has been found in cpio that can potentially allow a cpio archive to extract its files to an arbitrary directory of the creator's choice. Impact : An attacker could...

7a69Adv#21 - WinRAR unpack one-folder path disclosure

------------------------------------------------------------------ 7a69ezine Advisories 7a69Adv21 - ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.7a69ezine.org 02/02/2005 - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: WinRAR unpack...

[Full-Disclosure] WinHKI - ARC File Extraction of 1KB to 1.56GB

Application: WinHKI Vendors: http://www.webtoolmaster.com Versions: 1.4d Platforms: Windows Bug: ARC File Extraction of 1KB to 1.56GB Exploitation: Local extract file Date: 24 Dec 2004 Author: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://theinsider.deep-ice.com 1 Introducti...

cabextract -- insecure directory handling

cabextract has insufficient checks for file names that contain ../. This can cause files to be extracted to the parent directory...

GameSpy Arcade Arbitrary File Writing Vulnerability

ThreeZee Technology, Inc. Security Advisory TZT002 Advisory: GameSpy Arcade Arbitrary File Writing Discovered: July 26, 2003 Released: July 31, 2003 Risk: Critical; Allows writing of a file to any location on the victim's system. Author: Mike Kristovich, Security Researcher ThreeZee Technology,...

Info-ZIP UnZip 5.50 - Encoded Character Hostile Destination Path

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7550/info Info-ZIP UnZip contains a vulnerability during the handling of pathnames for archived files. Specifically, when certain encoded characters are inserted into '../' directory traversal sequences, the creator of the archive can cause the file to be...

WinRAR buffer overflow

Stack overflow on oversized file extention during extraction...

Buffer overflow and directory traversal in Microsoft Windows Compressed Folders feature

Buffer overflow and directory traversal while extracting file from .zip archive...

CVE-2001-0973

BSCW groupware system 3.3 through 4.0.2 beta allows remote attackers to read or modify arbitrary files by uploading and extracting a tar file with a symlink into the data-bag space...

BSCW vulnerable to arbitrary file overwriting via symlink redirection of temporary file

Overview BSCW is a groupware system that runs on a web server. BSCW follows symbolic links in tar files that it extracts into a user's local area. Accessing those links may allow the user to view arbitrary files viewable by the web server, and to overwrite files writable by the web server...

Доступ к специальным устройствам во многих архиваторах (special device)

При извлечении файла файл может быть послан в специальное устройство...

Multiple archivers special DOS/Windows devices access

Topic: Special devices access in multiple archivers Author: 3APA3A Platform: Windows Affected Software: WinZIP Computing's WinZIP 8.0, PKWare PkZip 4.0, RARSoft WinRar 2.80 Risk: average Released: July, 5, 2001 SECURITY.NNOV advisories: http://security.nnov.ru/advisories Background: Archive...

tar-symlink.txt

Title : GNU tar Tape ARchive symlinkvulnerability Author : Marco van Berkum Organisation : OBIT b.v. URL : http://www.obit.nl Email : [email protected] Date : 06-01-2001 The usefull program tar Tape ARchive is used by all UNIX, Linux and BSD versions around and is used to ARCHIVE files to disk o...