CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1162
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the _zip_readcdir function in zip_open.c in libzip 0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a zip archive with the number of directories set to 0, related to an "incorrect loop construct."
Affected configurations
• nih libzip 0.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.html Exploit
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html www.nih.at
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11 www.openwall.com
- http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.html Exploit
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html www.nih.at
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11 www.openwall.com