Out-of-bounds Read Affecting amadvance/advancecomp package, versions [,2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-AMADVANCEADVANCECOMP-2366349
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-1056  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade amadvance/advancecomp to version 2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files.

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