Out-of-Bounds Affecting zsh-users/zsh package, versions [,5.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ZSHUSERSZSH-2369456
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-18206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zsh-users/zsh to version 5.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In utils.c in zsh before 5.4, symlink expansion had a buffer overflow.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1