CVE-2010-2800

medium

Description

The MS-ZIP decompressor in cabextract before 1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed MSZIP archive in a .cab file during a (1) test or (2) extract action, related to the libmspack library.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620450

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1903

http://www.cabextract.org.uk/#changes

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077976522470&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128076168623266&w=2

http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=95

http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=90

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329891

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-08-09

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H