Out-of-bounds Write Affecting zsh-users/zsh package, versions [,5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ZSHUSERSZSH-2369457
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1071  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zsh-users/zsh to version 5.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write zsh through version 5.4.2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the exec.c:hashcmd() function. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1