Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zziplib (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published26 Nov 2025
- disclosed11 Nov 2025
Introduced: 11 Nov 2025
CVE-2018-17828 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The AlmaLinux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for AlmaLinux:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zziplib package and not the zziplib package as distributed by AlmaLinux.
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.
References
- https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2025-20478.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-20838.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17828
- https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-17828
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20478
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20838
- https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/62