Directory Traversal Affecting zziplib package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2304-ZZIPLIB-5481164
  • published1 Oct 2018
  • disclosed1 Oct 2018

Introduced: 1 Oct 2018

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:23.04 zziplib.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zziplib package and not the zziplib package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:23.04 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.