Microsoft security update for CVE-2008-0888
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 unzip 6.0-20 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 unzip 6.0-22 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 unzip 6.0-19 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 unzip 6.0-16 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates
3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 6.0-16 |
| — | Security Update | 6.0-19 |
| — | Security Update | 6.0-20 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2008-0888
- EchelonGraph score
- Not scored by EchelonGraph yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
The NEEDBITS macro in the inflate_dynamic function in inflate.c for unzip can be invoked using invalid buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors that trigger a free of uninitialized or previously-freed data.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2008-0888, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).