Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zziplib  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ZZIPLIB-13551205
  • published15 Oct 2025
  • disclosed25 Sept 2018

Introduced: 25 Sep 2018

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zziplib package and not the zziplib package as distributed by RHEL.

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.