Resource Exhaustion Affecting zziplib-devel package, versions <0:0.13.62-11.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.94% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ZZIPLIBDEVEL-8009904
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed5 Sept 2018

Introduced: 5 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 zziplib-devel to version 0:0.13.62-11.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2196.

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. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.