Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting zziplib-utils package, versions <0:0.13.62-9.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-ZZIPLIBUTILS-1668435
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed6 Mar 2018

Introduced: 6 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 zziplib-utils to version 0:0.13.62-9.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1142.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib 0.13.68. There is a memory leak triggered in the function zzip_mem_disk_new in memdisk.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.