CVE-2012-1162

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.html
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034
• http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11
• http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.html
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034
• http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11