CVE-2007-6537

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the zfile_gunzip function in zfile.c in WinUAE 1.4.4 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename in a gzipped archive, such as a (1) gz, (2) adz, (3) roz, or (4) hdz archive in a compressed floppy disk image.

Affected products

Winuae: 1.4.4

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/winuaebof-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/winuaebof.zip
http://osvdb.org/39902
http://secunia.com/advisories/28208
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3487
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485446/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26979
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4306/references
http://www.winuae.net/frames/mainframe.html
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/winuaebof-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/winuaebof.zip
http://osvdb.org/39902

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