[Security] Fedora Core 3 Update: zip-2.3-26.3

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Tue Nov 9 00:10:20 UTC 2004


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-400
2004-11-08
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : zip
Version     : 2.3                      
Release     : 26.3                  
Summary     : A file compression and packaging utility compatible with
PKZIP.
Description :
The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility.  Zip is
analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and
is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for
MS-DOS systems).

Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip
program.

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Update Information:

A buffer overflow has been found in zip which will lead to a buffer
overflow when a user try to create a zip archive which contains very
long filenames.

See:
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-
November/028379.html
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* Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh at redhat.com> 2.3-26.3

- Rebuild for FC-3

* Mon Nov 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh at redhat.com> 2.3-26.2

- Fix buffer overflow. #138230


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

bc2cbf480d0c179477c860b28eed69de  SRPMS/zip-2.3-26.3.src.rpm
f838848328a58c46c383b71cbcf3ed76  x86_64/zip-2.3-26.3.x86_64.rpm
87d6165bfdde40a5c74fd8583a338681  x86_64/debug/zip-
debuginfo-2.3-26.3.x86_64.rpm
c655032e0d8b15079b1de6ab133f05fe  i386/zip-2.3-26.3.i386.rpm
edd6fddc5e2e721866fa5bd28e056996  i386/debug/zip-
debuginfo-2.3-26.3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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