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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:38:42 +0200
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Heap overflow and DoS in unzip 6.0

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:10:17 -0300
Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@...il.com> wrote:

> AFAIK, upstream is still working on the heap overflow issue (the DoS
> is fixed in the last unzip beta). In concrete, they said:

Actually talking about upstream: The state of the info-zip packages is
pretty dismal.

There are issues from 2009(!) that haven't seen a fix yet, at least
not in a release:
http://www.info-zip.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=267

Are you in contact with upstream?

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