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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request [two ids] -- cabextract -- 1,
 Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders (minor) 2, Integer wrap-around
 (crash) by processing certain *.cab files in test archive mode

----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve, vendors,
> 
>    two security issues have been reported against cabextract:
> 
> 1, Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders (minor issue):
> 
> A deficiency has been reported in the way cabextract extracted certain
> Cabinet (*.cab) files, using the MZ-ZIP and Quantum decompressors.  If a
> local user was tricked into opening a specially-crafted *.cab file, it
> could lead to infinite loop.
> 

CVE-2010-2800

> 2, Integer wrap-around (crash) by processing certain *.cab files in
> test archive mode
> 
> An integer wrap-around flaw has been reported in the way cabextract
> processed certain Cabinet (*.cab) archive files. If a local user was
> tricked into opening a specially-crafted *.cab archive in test archive
> mode, it could lead to cabextract executable crash.
> 

CVE-2010-2801


Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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