7-zip Unspecified Vulnerability

Secunia ID	SA29434
CVE-ID	CVE-2008-6536
Release Date	24 Mar 2008
Last Change	02 Apr 2009
Criticality	Moderately Critical Typically used for remotely exploitable Denial of Service vulnerabilities against services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP, and for vulnerabilities that allow system compromises but require user interaction. This rating is also used for vulnerabilities allowing system compromise on LANs in services like SMB, RPC, NFS, LPD and similar services that are not intended for use over the Internet.
Solution Status	Vendor Patch
Software	7-Zip 4.x
Where	From remote "From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network. This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
Impact	Unknown Covers various weaknesses, security issues, and vulnerabilities not covered by the other impact types, or where the impact isn't known due to insufficient information from vendors and researchers.
Description	A vulnerability with unknown impact has been reported in 7-zip. The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified errors. No further information is currently available. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to version 4.5.7.
Solution	Update to version 4.5.7. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
Reported by	Oulu University Secure Programming Group
Original Advisory	http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/