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Ubuntu: USN-589-1 Critical: Unzip Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Debian Security Bulletin highlights a severe gunzip vulnerability that allows remote code execution through pointer errors. Update available.
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 atta...

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security advisory security issue critical remote code execution Ubuntu unzip pointer handling

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-589-1 March 20, 2008

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security advisory security issue critical remote code execution Ubuntu unzip pointer handling

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