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CVE-2018-16548

Published: 5 September 2018

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib through 0.13.69. There is a memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
zziplib
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
eoan Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
focal Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
groovy Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
impish Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
jammy Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
lunar Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
mantic Not vulnerable
(0.13.62-3.2)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/commit/0e1dadb05c1473b9df2d7b8f298dab801778ef99
upstream: https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/commit/d2e5d5c53212e54a97ad64b793a4389193fec687
upstream: https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/commit/9411bde3e4a70a81ff3ffd256b71927b2d90dcbb

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H