yamt -- buffer overflow and directory traversal issues

Description:

Stanislav Brabec discovered errors in yamt's path name handling that lead to buffer overflows and directory traversal issues. When processing a file with a maliciously crafted ID3 tag, yamt might overwrite arbitrary files or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The SuSE package ChangeLog contains:

• Several security fixes (#49337):
• directory traversal in rename
• directory traversal in sort
• buffer overflow in sort
• buffer overflow in rename

References:

• CVE name CVE-2005-1846
• CVE name CVE-2005-1847
• URL: <http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/updates/8.2/i386/rpm/i586/yamt-0.5-1277.i586.html>
• URL: <ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/yamt-0.5-1277.src.rpm>

Affects:

• yamt <0.5_2

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