NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zsh  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ZSH-613293
  • published27 Feb 2018
  • disclosed27 Feb 2018

Introduced: 27 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zsh package and not the zsh package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In subst.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference when using ${(PA)...} on an empty array result.