oss-security - Re: Re: CVE Request: ZIP Integer Overflow leads to writing past heap boundary

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:24:53 +0100
From: Timo Warns <Timo.Warns@...il.com>
To: cve-assign@...re.org
Cc: emmanuel.law@...il.com, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE Request: ZIP Integer Overflow leads to
 writing past heap boundary

On 2015-03-18, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> 
> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69253
> > https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/ef8fc4b53d92fbfcd8ef1abbd6f2f5fe2c4a11e5
> 
> > PHP <= 5.6.6 has a Integer overflow vulnerability when opening a
> > ZipArchive with a large number of entries. This results in writing
> > past the heap boundary and crashing PHP.
> 
> Use CVE-2015-2331.

Can you please clarify the scope of CVE-2015-2331? Does it only cover
the vulnerability in PHP or does it also cover upstream libzip?

Thanks, Timo

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