Out-of-bounds Write Affecting zsh package, versions <5.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ZSH-11774975
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed11 Apr 2018

Introduced: 11 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-1100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 zsh to version 5.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zsh package and not the zsh package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

zsh through version 5.4.2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the utils.c:checkmailpath function. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of another user.

CVSS Base Scores

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