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[USN-589-1] unzip vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-589-1             March 20, 2008
unzip vulnerability
CVE-2008-0888
Kwetsbare Ubuntu versies:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10

Kwetsbare pakketten:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
unzip 5.52-6ubuntu4.1
Ubuntu 6.10
unzip 5.52-8ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 7.10
unzip 5.52-10ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 7.04
unzip 5.52-9ubuntu3.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip did not correctly clean up pointers. If a user or automated service was tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.