From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 18:27:04 CDT

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TITLE:
UnZip "inflate_dynamic()" Uninitialized Pointers Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29415

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29415/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
UnZip 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1562/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in UnZip, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the use of uninitialized pointers
in the "inflate_dynamic()" function in inflate.c. This can
potentially be exploited to free an attacker-controlled memory region
and execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted ZIP compressed
file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.52. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted archives using UnZip.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
rPath credits Tavis Ormandy.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2317

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