CVE-2008-0888

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

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.

EPSS Score⁠: 0.1904 (0.951)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

CWE-119⁠

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Impacted images

Advisories

NIST

CREATED

18 years ago

UPDATED

9 months ago

ADVISORY IDCVE-2008-0888⁠

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

8.6

EXPLOITS FOUND

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CWE-119⁠

CVSS SCORE

9.3high

Alpine

CREATED

6 months ago

UPDATED

7 days ago

ADVISORY IDCVE-2008-0888⁠

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

EXPLOITS FOUND

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

Debian

CREATED

18 years ago

UPDATED

29 days ago

ADVISORY IDCVE-2008-0888⁠

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

EXPLOITS FOUND

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

Ubuntu

CREATED

18 years ago

UPDATED

11 months ago

ADVISORY IDCVE-2008-0888⁠

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

EXPLOITS FOUND

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Alow

Red Hat

CREATED

18 years ago

UPDATED

23 days ago

ADVISORY IDCVE-2008-0888⁠

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

EXPLOITS FOUND

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Amedium