CVE-2004-0771

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the extract_one function from lhext.c in LHA may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long w (working directory) command line option, a different issue than CVE-2004-0769. NOTE: this issue may be REJECTED if there are not any cases in which LHA is setuid or is otherwise used across security boundaries.

Affected products

Tsugio Okamoto Lha: 1.14, 1.15, 1.17

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108668791510153
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/363418
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10354
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1833
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16196
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9595
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108668791510153

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