Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in WinAce, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
WinAce UUE File Decompression Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28215
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28215/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
WinAce 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4231/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in WinAce, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when
decompressing UUE files and can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow via a specially crafted UUE file containing an overly
long filename.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.65. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.69.
http://www.winace.com/down.html
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Fourteenforty Research Institute
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.fourteenforty.jp/research/advisory.cgi?FFRRA-20071225
OTHER REFERENCES:
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2344736880/index.html
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