Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting zziplib package, versions <0.13.62-3.2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-ZZIPLIB-305253
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed5 Sept 2018

Introduced: 5 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 zziplib to version 0.13.62-3.2 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 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.