A vulnerability has been identified in PECL Zip Extension, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error when processing an overly long "zip:" URI, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable web server.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser
ChangeLog
2007-03-12 : Initial release
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