RedHat: unzip Trojan vulnerability RHSA-2003:199-01
Summary
Summary
The unzip utility is used for manipulating archives, which are multiplefiles stored inside of a single file.A vulnerabilitiy in unzip version 5.50 and earlier allows attackers tooverwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction by placing invalid(non-printable) characters between two "." characters. These non-printablecharacters are filtered, resulting in a ".." sequence. The CommonVulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the nameCAN-2003-0282 to this issue.This erratum includes a patch ensuring that non-printable characters do notmake it possible for a malicious .zip file to write to parent directoriesunless the "-:" command line parameter is specified.Users of unzip are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which arenot vulnerable to this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filenames]
where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.
Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):
97301 - vulnerability in unzip 5.50 allows malicious zip file to write to ../
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 7.1:
SRPMS:
i386:
Red Hat Linux 7.2:
SRPMS:
i386:
ia64:
Red Hat Linux 7.3:
SRPMS:
i386:
Red Hat Linux 8.0:
SRPMS:
i386:
Red Hat Linux 9:
SRPMS:
i386:
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
627c65d2643152f360a4b7f8ebacf993 7.1/en/os/SRPMS/unzip-5.50-11.src.rpm
c37b3635f768ca248ef6486f38a4cfb1 7.1/en/os/i386/unzip-5.50-11.i386.rpm
627c65d2643152f360a4b7f8ebacf993 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/unzip-5.50-11.src.rpm
c37b3635f768ca248ef6486f38a4cfb1 7.2/en/os/i386/unzip-5.50-11.i386.rpm
e1cb9d0c5312667c601e3a04e160ea3c 7.2/en/os/ia64/unzip-5.50-11.ia64.rpm
627c65d2643152f360a4b7f8ebacf993 7.3/en/os/SRPMS/unzip-5.50-11.src.rpm
c37b3635f768ca248ef6486f38a4cfb1 7.3/en/os/i386/unzip-5.50-11.i386.rpm
b06d287ae9708615d9c8201addd84ceb 8.0/en/os/SRPMS/unzip-5.50-12.src.rpm
14e662c115aab0fd073602a2637c306a 8.0/en/os/i386/unzip-5.50-12.i386.rpm
da4837981a5363b178185c3d53bfe3f5 9/en/os/SRPMS/unzip-5.50-14.src.rpm
12b5697f11ad09959e9f51d570c37268 9/en/os/i386/unzip-5.50-14.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is
available from Product Signing Keys - Red Hat Customer Portal
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm --checksig -v
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
md5sum
References
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105259038503175 CVE -CVE-2003-0282
Package List
Topic
Topic
Updated unzip packages resolving a vulnerability allowing arbitrary files
to be overwritten are now available.
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Linux 7.1 - i386
Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, ia64
Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386
Red Hat Linux 8.0 - i386
Red Hat Linux 9 - i386
Bugs Fixed