National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2800
Original release date:08/09/2010
Last revised:08/09/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The 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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1903
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.cabextract.org.uk/#changes
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=95
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=90
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620450
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100802 Re: CVE Request [two ids] -- cabextract -- 1, Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders (minor) 2, Integer wrap-around (crash) by processing certain *.cab files in test archive mode
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100802 CVE Request [two ids] -- cabextract -- 1, Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders (minor) 2, Integer wrap-around (crash) by processing certain *.cab files in test archive mode
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329891
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)