Bug 620450 (CVE-2010-2800) - CVE-2010-2800 cabextract: Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders
Summary: CVE-2010-2800 cabextract: Infinite loop in MS-ZIP and Quantum decoders
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-2800
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 620457
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-02 14:50 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-05-27 21:46:18 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-02 14:50:34 UTC 
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.

References:
  [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329891

Upstream patches:
  [2] http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=90
  [3] http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=95
  [4] http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack/libmspack/trunk/mspack/
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-02 15:01:45 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the cabextract package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 12 and 13.

Please fix.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-02 15:08:55 UTC 
Created cabextract tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 620457]
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-03 08:33:07 UTC 
The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-2800 has been assigned to this.
Comment 4 Dan Horák 2010-08-28 08:44:05 UTC 
cabextract (together with wine and openoffice.org per libmspack upstream) should use the system-wide libmspack library instead of an embedded copy
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