Directory Traversal Affecting zziplib-devel package, versions <0:0.13.62-12.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-ZZIPLIBDEVEL-1688349
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed1 Oct 2018

Introduced: 1 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17828  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 zziplib-devel to version 0:0.13.62-12.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1551.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zziplib-devel package and not the zziplib-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.