Security Advisory

CVE-2008-0888

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-03-17 21:00:00
Last updated 2025-08-26 12:17:22
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The NEEDBITS macro in the inflate_dynamic function in inflate.c for unzip can be invoked using invalid buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors that trigger a free of uninitialized or previously-freed data.