CVE-2012-1163: Nih Libzip

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the _zip_readcdir function in zip_open.c in libzip 0.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the size and offset values for the central directory in a zip archive, which triggers "improper restrictions of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer" and an information leak.

Affected products

• Nih Libzip: version 0.10 only

Published 2012-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.