CVE-2008-2021
Heap-based buffer overflow in Lhaplus before 1.57 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long comment field in a ZOO archive.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Lhaplus before 1.57 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long comment field in a ZOO archive.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.48% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- lhaplus/lhaplus
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2374468481/index.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29972Vendor Advisory
- http://www.fourteenforty.jp/research/advisory.cgi?FFRRA-20080428
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28953
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1369/references
- http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~schezo/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42032
- http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2374468481/index.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29972Vendor Advisory
- http://www.fourteenforty.jp/research/advisory.cgi?FFRRA-20080428
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28953
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1369/references
- http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~schezo/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42032
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.