Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0771

Title: LHA buffer overflow RCE (Disputed)

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2004-0771

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 23, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

18.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0771: Buffer overflow in the extract_one function from lhext.c in LHA may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long w (working directory) command line option, a different issue than CVE-2004-0769. NOTE: this issue may be REJECTED if there are not any cases in which LHA is setuid or is otherwise used across security boundaries.

Impacted Vendors

tsugio_okamoto 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108668791510153 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-13.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-323.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-440.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/363418 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10354 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1833 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16196 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9595 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108668791510153 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-13.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-323.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-440.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/363418 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10354 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1833 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16196 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9595

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-2004-0771 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24120

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 23, 2004 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.