Scientific Linux: unzip Security Update CVE-2008-0888 Moderate Risk

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:35:29 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for unzip on SL3.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: unzip security update
Issue date:	2008-03-18
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-0888

An invalid pointer flaw was found in unzip. If a user ran unzip on a
specially crafted file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with that
user's privileges. (CVE-2008-0888)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
unzip-5.50-36.EL3.src.rpm
 i386:
unzip-5.50-36.EL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
unzip-5.50-36.EL3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson