EUVD-2004-1767

Malware in sbrugna...

Updated sharutils packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that unshar from sharutils contained a heap buffer overflow flaw that could result in a Denial of Service attack when processing a shar archive if the archive contains overlong lines...

GNU Sharutils 4.2.1 - Local Format String

GNU Sharutils 4.2.1 - Local Format String / GNU sharutils include include include include include include include include include define GNUSOURCE define DEFAULTDTORS...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sharutils (MDKSA-2002:052)

The uudecode utility creates output files without checking to see if it is about to write to a symlink or pipe. This could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite files or lead to privilege escalation if users decode data into share directories, such as /tmp. This update fixes this...