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CVE-2008-0888

Published: Mar 17, 2008

Modified: Aug 26, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

info-zip

unzip

affected
0 - < 6.0

References

29415
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
20080321 rPSA-2008-0116-1 unzip
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
29427
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
ADV-2008-1744
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
29440
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
DSA-1522
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
29432
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_APPLE
29392
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
29681
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
MDVSA-2008:068
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
SUSE-SR:2008:007
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
ADV-2008-0913
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
30535
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
GLSA-200804-06
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9733
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
29406
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
29495
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
31204
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
1019634
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
RHSA-2008:0196
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
USN-589-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
28288
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID

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