CVE-2012-1162

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."

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11

http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3