UnRTF: Buffer overflow — GLSA 200501-15

A buffer overflow in UnRTF allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by way of a specially crafted RTF file.

Affected packages

Background

UnRTF is a utility to convert files in the Rich Text Format into other formats.

Description

An unchecked strcat() in unrtf may overflow the bounds of a static buffer.

Impact

Using a specially crafted file, possibly delivered by e-mail or over the web, an attacker may execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running UnRTF.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/unrtf-0.19.3-r1"

References

• Original Announcement

Release date
January 10, 2005

Latest revision
January 10, 2005: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 74480