CVE-2004-0769

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in LHA allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long pathnames in LHarc format 2 headers for a .LHZ archive, as originally demonstrated using the "x" option but also exploitable through "l" and "v", and fixed in header.c, a different issue than CVE-2004-0771.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285
http://lw.ftw.zamosc.pl/lha-exploit.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108745217504379&w=2
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-13.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-323.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-440.html
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1833
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16917
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11047
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285
http://lw.ftw.zamosc.pl/lha-exploit.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108745217504379&w=2

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