A vulnerability has been identified in Lhaz, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when processing a malformed gzip archive, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted archive.
Note : This vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by McAfee Avert Labs.
ChangeLog
2007-08-21 : Initial release
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