Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting sharutils package, versions [4.2,4.2.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SHARUTILS-2374270
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2004

CVE-2004-1772  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for sharutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Stack-based buffer overflow in shar in GNU sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -o command line argument.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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