CVE-2012-1162

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1162
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-12 20:55:14 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionHeap-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."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nih Libzip 0.10 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2012:034 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
oss-security - Re: CVE-2012-1162 / -1163: Incorrect loop construct and numeric overflow in libzip af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
oss-security - CVE-2012-1162 / -1163: Incorrect loop construct and numeric overflow in libzip af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- libzip: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
News · libzip af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.nih.at
NiH: libzip: libzip-discuss: libzip-0.10.1 security fix release af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 nih.at Exploit
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