Heap-based buffer overflow in SUSE products - CVE-2015-2331

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Heap-based buffer overflow in SUSE products - CVE-2015-2331

Published: March 30, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40861
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2331
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: PHP Group
Debian
Fedoraproject
SUSE
Affected software:
PHP
Debian Linux
Fedora
Opensuse

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Integer overflow in the _zip_cdir_new function in zip_dirent.c in libzip 0.11.2 and earlier, as used in the ZIP extension in PHP before 5.4.39, 5.5.x before 5.5.23, and 5.6.x before 5.6.7 and other products,. A remote attacker can use a ZIP archive that contains many entries to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-2331

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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