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CVE-2004-0769

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0769 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in LHA, specifically affecting the handling of LHarc format 2 headers with overly long pathnames in .LHZ archives. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems, as demonstrated through the "x" option but also exploitable via "l" and "v" options. With a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity, this vulnerability presents a significant risk of complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability). Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0715 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: lha-0:1.14i-10.4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0769

security flaw

May 15, 2004

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
lw.ftw.zamosc.pl / lha-exploit.txt
marc.info
bugzilla.fedora.us / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16917
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11047
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-13.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-323.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-440.html