Subject: unzoo: directory traversal security bug
Package: unzoo
Version: 4.4-2
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hello,

unzoo suffers from an old security bug that hasn't been patched. When unpacking
.zoo archives, there's no check for "../.." constructs in the file names, which
makes it possible to unpack to arbitrary locations in the file system.

Read more here:

http://secunia.com/advisories/12857/
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Oct/1011673.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11417/info/

// Ulf Härnhammar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages unzoo depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information


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