Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive.
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)
Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.
All unzip users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
Affected
unzip on CentOS 3
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0888 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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