Directory Traversal Affecting zziplib-devel package, versions <0:0.13.68-8.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-ZZIPLIBDEVEL-3687574
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • 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:8 zziplib-devel to version 0:0.13.68-8.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1653.

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:8 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.