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CVE-2004-0234: Red Hat Lha: Buffer overflow

CVE-2004-0234 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Red Hat Lha, along with 11 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_header function in header.c for LHA 1.14, as used in products such as Barracuda Spam Firewall, allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code via long directory or file names in an LHA archive, which triggers the overflow when testing or extracting the archive.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

Red Hat Lha: 1.14i-9
Tsugio Okamoto Lha: 1.14; 1.15; 1.17
Clearswift Mailsweeper: 4.0; 4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.3.3; 4.3.4; 4.3.5; 4.3.6; 4.3.6_sp1; 4.3.7; 4.3.8; 4.3.10
F Secure Anti Virus: 4.51; 4.52; 4.60; 5.5; 5.41; 5.42; 5.52; 6.21; 2003; 2004
F Secure For Firewalls: 6.20
F Secure Internet Security: 2003; 2004
F Secure Personal Express: 4.5; 4.6; 4.7
F Secure Internet Gatekeeper: 6.31; 6.32
Rarlab Winrar: 3.20
Sgi Propack: 2.4; 3.0
Stalker Cgpmcafee: 3.2
Winzip: 9.0
Red Hat Fedora Core: core_1.0