National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6536
Original release date:03/30/2009
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in 7-zip before 4.5.7 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats (c10).
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0914
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: 7zip-archives-code-execution(41247)
External Source: BID
Name: 28285
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29434
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 43649
