CVE-2010-2800

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The MS-ZIP decompressor in cabextract before 1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed MSZIP archive in a .cab file during a (1) test or (2) extract action, related to the libmspack library.

Affected products

Cabextract Project Cabextract: through 1.2; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+2)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329891
http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=90
http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=95
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128076168623266&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077976522470&w=2
http://www.cabextract.org.uk/#changes
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1903
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620450
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329891
http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=90
http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=95
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128076168623266&w=2

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