Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51937
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu 4.10 USN-102-1 (sharutils)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to sharutils announced via advisory USN-102-1. Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow in shar that was triggered by output files (specified with -o) with names longer than 49 characters. This could be exploited to run arbitrary attacker specified code on systems that automatically process uploaded files with shar. Ulf Harnhammar discovered that shar does not check the data length returned by the 'wc' command. However, it is believed that this cannot actually be exploited on real systems. The following packages are affected: sharutils Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:4.2.1-10ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-102-1 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242597 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265904 Risk factor : High
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