26908 : QuickZip Multiple Archive Traversal Arbitrary File Write
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2006-06-29	2006-06-29

Description

QuickZip contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to place malicious files to arbitrary locations outside of the specified directory. The issue is due to the program not properly sanitizing user input when extracting TAR, GZ and JAR archives, specifically directory traversal style attacks (../../).

Classification

Location: Local Access Required, Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades or patches to correct this issue. It is possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workarounds: do not extract untrusted archives, do not extract files as an administrative user.

Products

QuickZip

3.06.3

References

Bugtraq ID: 18722
CVE ID: 2006-3326 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 20864
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-2599
Vendor URL: http://www.quickzip.org/

Credit

Claus Berghammer -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 2.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-07-03 | Disagree?

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