CVE-2012-1163

medium
Published 2012-07-12 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Integer overflow in the _zip_readcdir function in zip_open.c in libzip 0.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the size and offset values for the central directory in a zip archive, which triggers "improper restrictions of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer" and an information leak.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.10.1-1
sid Fixed 0.10.1-1
forky Fixed 0.10.1-1
bullseye Fixed 0.10.1-1
bookworm Fixed 0.10.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
nihlibzip0.10

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.