CVE-2020-18770 Affecting zziplib package, versions <0.13.78+dfsg.1-0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ZZIPLIB-11775010
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2020-18770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 zziplib to version 0.13.78+dfsg.1-0.1 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in function zzip_disk_entry_to_file_header in mmapped.c in zziplib 0.13.69, which will lead to a denial-of-service.

CVSS Base Scores

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