Improper Input Validation Affecting zsh package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-ZSH-1381996
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-13259  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 zsh.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zsh package and not the zsh package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a substring of the intended one.