CVE-2012-1162 Information

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.\

Reference

http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034 http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11