Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting zziplib-utils package, versions <0:0.13.62-11.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-ZZIPLIBUTILS-2538059
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • 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 Oracle:7 zziplib-utils to version 0:0.13.62-11.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-2196.

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