Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zziplib-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ZZIPLIBDEVEL-13551214
  • 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-devel package and not the zziplib-devel 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.