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CVE-2018-17828

Published: 1 October 2018

Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
these tools aren't installed in the binary package
see upstream bug for patch to unzip-mem too

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
zziplib
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needed

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needed

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
mantic Needed

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/commit/f609ae8971f3c0ce64d38276b778001d0bbfc84b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N