CVE-2008-0888 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-0888 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 358425 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:007, published Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:56:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:14 2025