National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2520

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in BitZipper 4.1.2 SR-1 and earlier allows remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the filename of a file that is stored in a (1) RAR (.rar), (2) TAR (.tar), (3) ZIP (.zip), (4) GZ (.gz), or (5) JAR (.jar) archive.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1907

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1907

External Source: BID

Name: 18065

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18065

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060522 BitZipper Archive Extraction Directory traversal

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/434713/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20207

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20207

External Source: MISC

Name: http://hamid.ir/security/bitzipper.txt

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://hamid.ir/security/bitzipper.txt

External Source: XF

Name: bitzipper-extract-directory-traversal(26626)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26626

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 25693

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/25693

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016132

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016132