Directory Traversal Affecting zziplib-utils package, versions <0:0.13.62-12.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-ZZIPLIBUTILS-2552619
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed1 Oct 2018

Introduced: 1 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17828  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 zziplib-utils to version 0:0.13.62-12.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-1178.

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.

Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.