CVE-2010-2801

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% 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-189

Description

Integer signedness error in the Quantum decompressor in cabextract before 1.3, when archive test mode is used, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Quantum archive in a .cab file, 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/libmspack/trunk/mspack/qtmd.c?r1=114&r2=113
http://libmspack.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libmspack?view=revision&revision=118
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.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2087
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42173
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1903
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1997
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620454
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60891

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