CVE-2012-1162
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in the _zip_readcdir function in zip_open.c in libzip 0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a zip archive with the number of directories set to 0, related to an "incorrect loop construct."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1192)
- Published
- July 12, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1192 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- nih / libzip
References
- http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00252.html(Exploit)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-23.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:034
- http://www.nih.at/libzip/NEWS.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/2(Exploit)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/11
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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