Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1522-1 unzip -- programming error

Date Reported:

17 Mar 2008

Affected Packages:

unzip

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0888.

More information:

Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip, when processing specially crafted ZIP archives, could pass invalid pointers to the C library's free routine, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2008-0888).

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 5.52-1sarge5.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.52-9etch1.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your unzip package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-1sarge5_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unzip/unzip_5.52-9etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.