CVE-2008-3442

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 1, 2008
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Aug 1, 2008

Description

WinZip before 11.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

1020581vdb-entry
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz
20080728 Tool release: [evilgrade] - Using DNS cache poisoning to exploit poor update implementationsmailing-list

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