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CVE-2018-1056

Published: 8 February 2018

An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files.

Notes

AuthorNote
ratliff
w/o ASAN errors out on trusty, segfaults on xenial

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package Release Status
advancecomp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (2.1-1)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [1.18-1ubuntu0.1])
xenial
Released (1.20-1ubuntu0.1)
artful
Released (2.0-1ubuntu0.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/amadvance/advancecomp/commit/7deeafc02b29cc51d51079e66f4f43f986ff9cc5