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Ghidra 10.3 before 12.2 Denial of Service via ThemeReader.readZipTheme()

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Severity
medium
Date
Affecting
  • ghidra >= 10.3, < 12.2

CWE
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS
6.8
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Yuvraj Saxena (0xXA)
Description
Ghidra 10.3 before 12.2 contains a resource allocation without limits vulnerability in ThemeReader.readZipTheme() that extracts unlimited theme ZIP entries to the images directory. Attackers can persuade users to import a crafted theme archive with many small files, exhausting inodes and disk space to deny service to the host.

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