Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-589-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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 attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
unzip vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04 ,
Ubuntu 7.10
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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