Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting zziplib-devel package, versions <0.13.69-3.10.1
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- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed23 Oct 2019
Introduced: 23 Oct 2019
CVE-2018-16548 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.1 zziplib-devel to version 0.13.69-3.10.1 or higher.
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 SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16548.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107424
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00066.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2196
- https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/58
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00029.html