CVE-2008-0888

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-03-17
Bugzilla:
431438: CVE-2008-0888 unzip: free() called for uninitialized or already freed pointer

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0888 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (unzip) RHSA-2008:0196 2008-03-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (unzip) RHSA-2008:0196 2008-03-18

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.

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