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CVE-2012-1162

CVE-2012-1162

EPSS 4.0%
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."
Affected products
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References
http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.htmlhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.htmlhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11