From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 02:25:56 CDT

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TITLE:
CheckMark Payroll DUNZIP32.dll Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17096

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17096/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
CheckMark Payroll for Windows 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5826/

DESCRIPTION:
Juha-Matti Laurio has reported a vulnerability in CheckMark Payroll,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in a 3rd-party
compression library (DUNZIP32.dll) when extracting a backup file.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA12805

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but
requires that the user is e.g. tricked into restoring from a
malicious ZIP backup file.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 3.9.7.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.9.7 (requires CheckMark Payroll 2004/2005 for
Windows version 3.9.x).
http://www.checkmark.com/support/patch_win_pr.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Juha-Matti Laurio

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
CheckMark Software:
http://www.checkmark.com/support/prw_update.php

Juha-Matti Laurio:
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/payroll.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12805:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12805/

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