Debian Security Advisory

DLA-164-1 unace -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

03 Mar 2015

Affected Packages:

unace

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 775003.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-2063.

More information:

Jakub Wilk discovered that unace, an utility to extract, test and view .ace archives, contained an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ace archive, an attacker could cause a denial of service (application crash) or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in unace version 1.2b-7+deb6u1