CVE-2008-0888 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0888
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41246 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-589-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00008.html ST 1019634 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29427 Secunia Advisory: SA29440 Secunia Advisory: SA29415 Secunia Advisory: SA29432 Secunia Advisory: SA29406 Secunia Advisory: SA29495 Secunia Advisory: SA29392 Secunia Advisory: SA29681 Secunia Advisory: SA30535 Secunia Advisory: SA31204 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0196.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:068 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-06.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1522 CONFIRM http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0116 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0116 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489967/100/0/threaded BID 28288

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