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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0888

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-0888

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: SA29415
  Secunia Advisory: SA29427
  Secunia Advisory: SA29440
  Secunia Advisory: SA29432
  Secunia Advisory: SA29406
  Secunia Advisory: SA29495
  Secunia Advisory: SA29392
  Secunia Advisory: SA29681

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://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0116
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0116

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489967/100/0/threaded

BID
  28288


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