Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting zziplib-devel package, versions <0:0.13.62-9.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.24% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-ZZIPLIBDEVEL-2530603
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • 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 Oracle:7 zziplib-devel to version 0:0.13.62-9.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-3229.

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 Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 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.