Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0234

Title: LHA multiple stack-based buffer overflows RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0234.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Aug 18, 2004
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
10.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0234: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_header function in header.c for LHA 1.14, as used in products such as Barracuda Spam Firewall, allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code via long directory or file names in an LHA archive, which triggers the overflow when testing or extracting the archive.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0059.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000840 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/020776.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/020778.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108422737918885&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/19514 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-02.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1015866 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-515 http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects/barracuda-advisory-LHA.txt http://www.osvdb.org/5753 http://www.osvdb.org/5754 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-May/msg00005.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-178.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-179.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10243 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1220 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1833 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16012 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A977 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9881 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0059.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000840 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/020776.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/020778.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108422737918885&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/19514 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-02.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1015866 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-515 http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects/barracuda-advisory-LHA.txt http://www.osvdb.org/5753 http://www.osvdb.org/5754 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-May/msg00005.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-178.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-179.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10243 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1220 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1833 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16012 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A977 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9881
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0234 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.