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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-1162: libzip: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-1162: libzip: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/12/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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."

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libzip

References

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