what you don't know can hurt you
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New
Showing 1 - 5 of 5 RSS Feed

CVE-2008-0888

Status Candidate

Overview

The NEEDBITS macro in the inflate_dynamic function in inflate.c for unzip can be invoked using invalid buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors that trigger a free of uninitialized or previously-freed data.

Related Files

VMware Security Advisory 2008-0009
Posted Jun 5, 2008
Authored by VMware | Site vmware.com

VMware Security Advisory - Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues.

tags | advisory
advisories | CVE-2007-5671, CVE-2008-0967, CVE-2008-2097, CVE-2008-2100, CVE-2006-1721, CVE-2008-0553, CVE-2007-5378, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2008-0888, CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063, CVE-2008-0948
SHA-256 | f098818652aa3effa44d42e138d658b7a0d4635486d171c6267c1242f5e9088e
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200804-6
Posted Apr 8, 2008
Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-06 - Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered that the NEEDBITS macro in the inflate_dynamic() function in the file inflate.c can be invoked using invalid buffers, which can lead to a double free. Versions less than 5.52-r2 are affected.

tags | advisory
systems | linux, gentoo
advisories | CVE-2008-0888
SHA-256 | 6881255524df5a3daeddd44e4a71ecaf71b57506b3ab8a35bb006adcc273cdbf
Ubuntu Security Notice 589-1
Posted Mar 20, 2008
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 589-1 - Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip did not correctly clean up pointers. If a user or automated service was tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

tags | advisory, remote, arbitrary
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2008-0888
SHA-256 | 8cc553b6a816c24515cc31acc6cf6171af40bb0e0c2cd4f80121484f410e4e20
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2008-068
Posted Mar 19, 2008
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Tavis Ormandy of Google Security discovered an invalid pointer flaw in unzip that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running unzip.

tags | advisory, arbitrary
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2008-0888
SHA-256 | 6241bf31366b86f9214c0b04b8389979ede508c055d9251b1a4119710eb80ccc
Debian Linux Security Advisory 1522-1
Posted Mar 17, 2008
Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Security Advisory 1522-1 - Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip, when processing specially crafted ZIP archives, could pass invalid pointers to the C library's free routine, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, code execution
systems | linux, debian
advisories | CVE-2008-0888
SHA-256 | 3c5604ace5a4b4adffc09cf7c4be1bbc96a5af52d3a0addfbcb4699152c5d081
Page 1 of 1
Back1Next

File Archive:

December 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Dec 1st
    0 Files
  • 2
    Dec 2nd
    41 Files
  • 3
    Dec 3rd
    0 Files
  • 4
    Dec 4th
    0 Files
  • 5
    Dec 5th
    0 Files
  • 6
    Dec 6th
    0 Files
  • 7
    Dec 7th
    0 Files
  • 8
    Dec 8th
    0 Files
  • 9
    Dec 9th
    0 Files
  • 10
    Dec 10th
    0 Files
  • 11
    Dec 11th
    0 Files
  • 12
    Dec 12th
    0 Files
  • 13
    Dec 13th
    0 Files
  • 14
    Dec 14th
    0 Files
  • 15
    Dec 15th
    0 Files
  • 16
    Dec 16th
    0 Files
  • 17
    Dec 17th
    0 Files
  • 18
    Dec 18th
    0 Files
  • 19
    Dec 19th
    0 Files
  • 20
    Dec 20th
    0 Files
  • 21
    Dec 21st
    0 Files
  • 22
    Dec 22nd
    0 Files
  • 23
    Dec 23rd
    0 Files
  • 24
    Dec 24th
    0 Files
  • 25
    Dec 25th
    0 Files
  • 26
    Dec 26th
    0 Files
  • 27
    Dec 27th
    0 Files
  • 28
    Dec 28th
    0 Files
  • 29
    Dec 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Dec 30th
    0 Files
  • 31
    Dec 31st
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2024 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close