CVE-2008-0888 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00008.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29392 http://secunia.com/advisories/29406 http://secunia.com/advisories/29415 http://secunia.com/advisories/29427 http://secunia.com/advisories/29432 http://secunia.com/advisories/29440 http://secunia.com/advisories/29495 http://secunia.com/advisories/29681 http://secunia.com/advisories/30535 http://secunia.com/advisories/31204 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-06.xml http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0116 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0116 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1522 http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:068 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0196.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489967/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28288 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019634 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-589-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0913/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41246 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2317 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9733