Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting zziplib package, versions <0.13.69-r2
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- published4 Dec 2025
- disclosed5 Sept 2018
Introduced: 5 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16548 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.23 zziplib to version 0.13.69-r2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zziplib package and not the zziplib package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.23 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16548
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16548
- https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/58
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00029.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2196
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00066.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16548