ubuntu · CVE-2004-0771

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Priority: medium Published: 2004-11-23 05:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:34:00 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2004-0771 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (lha), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Buffer overflow in the extract_one function from lhext.c in LHA may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long w (working directory) command line option, a different issue than CVE-2004-0769. NOTE: this issue may be REJECTED if there are not any cases in which LHA is setuid or is otherwise used across security boundaries.

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