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.

Solution
Do not process untrusted archives using UnZip.

Provided and/or discovered by
rPath credits Tavis Ormandy.

Original Advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2317

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