The symbolic-link branch of ZipArchive::extract_internal() allocates a buffer using an attacker-declared size before reading any entry data. A 112-byte archive terminates the extracting process with SIGABRT through this infallible allocation.
A malicious 149-byte ZIP archive can cause a denial of service in applications that enable legacy-zip and use ZipArchive::extract(). An attacker-controlled ZIP64 uncompressed size triggers a capacity overflow panic in the Shrink decoder in optimized builds, potentially terminating the affected process.
Verified version: zip 9.0.0-pre3 Affected versions: 7.2.0 and later Precondition: The attacker knows (or can guess) the absolute path of the extraction destination The validation applied to symlinks is purely lexical. As a result, an attacker can write arbitrary files outside the extraction directory through a symlink. Exploitation requires the attacker to know (or guess) the absolute path of the destination, but this is realistic in practice: CI workspaces, /opt/app, …
An AES-encrypted (AE-x) entry's authentication code is verified only when the reader's byte counter lands exactly on zero. If the bounded entry reader reaches the archive's actual EOF before the attacker-controlled, header-declared compressed_size, the counter remains positive, the HMAC is never read or compared, and the truncated, unauthenticated plaintext is returned as a clean end of stream. A zero-payload entry also returns before authentication. An attacker who does not know …
A critical architectural parser differential exists in the zip crate (<= 9.0.4) between random-access archive readers (ZipArchive) and streaming readers (ZipStreamReader). ZipArchive considers the Central Directory File Header (CDFH) authoritative and ignores the filename declared in the Local File Header (LFH). In contrast, ZipStreamReader relies exclusively on the Local File Header (LFH) when extracting files to the filesystem. This discrepancy enables ZIP archives to appear to have different file paths …
In the archive extraction routine of affected versions of the zip crate, symbolic links earlier in the archive are allowed to be used for later files in the archive without validation of the final canonicalized path, allowing maliciously crafted archives to overwrite arbitrary files in the file system when extracted.