CVE-2010-2800

Summary

CVECVE-2010-2800
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-08-09 11:58:17 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe MS-ZIP decompressor in cabextract before 1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed MSZIP archive in a .cab file during a (1) test or (2) extract action, related to the libmspack library.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 0.1 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 0.2 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 0.3 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 0.4 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 0.5 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 0.6 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 1.0 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract 1.1 All All All
Application Cabextract Project Cabextract All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'Re: [oss-security] CVE Request [two ids] -- cabextract -- 1,' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Webmail | OVH- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net Patch
329891 – <app-arch/cabextract-1.3: Infinite loop in MS-ZIP decoder (CVE-2010-{2800,2801}) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
cabextract af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cabextract.org.uk Patch
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net Patch
'[oss-security] CVE Request [two ids] -- cabextract -- 1, Infinite loop in MS-ZIP' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Bug 620450 – CVE-2010-2800 cabextract: Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
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