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TITLE:
Ruby Zip/Ruby Gem Zip File Parsing Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48534

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-03-27

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DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the Zip/Ruby gem for Ruby,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) and potentially compromise an application using the
library.

The vulnerabilities exist in the bundled version of libzip.

For more information:
SA48469

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 0.3.6 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted ZIP archives.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Thomas Klausner and Timo Warns, PRESENSE Technologies GmbH

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
PRE-CERT:
http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2012-02.txt

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