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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ZZIPLIBUTILS-8012145
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed25 Sept 2018

Introduced: 25 Sep 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 zziplib-utils to version 0:0.13.62-12.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.