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UnZip "inflate_dynamic()" Uninitialized Pointers Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA29415
Release Date: 2008-03-18
Popularity: 4,759 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:UnZip 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in UnZip, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the use of uninitialized pointers in the "inflate_dynamic()" function in inflate.c. This can potentially be exploited to free an attacker-controlled memory region and execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted ZIP compressed file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.52. Other versions may also be affected.

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