Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting sharutils package, versions [,4.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SHARUTILS-2374267
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 May 2002
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2002

CVE-2002-0178  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sharutils to version 4.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution uudecode, as available in the sharutils package before 4.2.1, does not check whether the filename of the uudecoded file is a pipe or symbolic link, which could allow attackers to overwrite files or execute commands.

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