⚠ Exploited in the wild
Exploitation observed in the wild. Not yet on CISA KEV.
CVE-2018-1056 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Advancecomp
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Timeline
PublishedJul 27
Latest updateMay 13
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-557x-wcm4-fhw8: An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2↗2022-05-13
OSV▶
CVE-2018-1056: An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2↗2018-07-27
CVEList▶
CVE-2018-1056: An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2↗2018-07-27
📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
2Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-1056 advancecomp: Heap buffer overflow in zip.cc:zip_entry::load_cent() allows for denial of service or unspecified impact via crafted ZIP file↗2018-02-06
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-1056 advancecomp: Heap buffer overflow in zip.cc:zip_entry::load_cent() allows for denial of service or unspecified impact via crafted ZIP file [fedora-all]↗2018-02-06