CVE-2018-6869 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Zziplib

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Gdraheim ZziplibDebian ZziplibCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 9
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In ZZIPlib 0.13.68, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation and a crash in the __zzip_parse_root_directory function of zzip/zip.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted zip file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/zziplib< zziplib 0.13.62-3.2 (bookworm)
▶Debiangdraheim/zziplib< 0.13.62-3.2+3
▶NVDgdraheim/zziplib0.13.68

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r2v6-v9m5-5jcp: In ZZIPlib 0↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-6869: In ZZIPlib 0↗2018-02-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
zziplib vulnerabilities↗2018-07-03
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Red Hat
zziplib: uncontrolled memory allocation in __zzip_parse_root_directory in zzip/zip.c↗2018-02-08
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Debian
CVE-2018-6869: zziplib - In ZZIPlib 0.13.68, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation and a crash in th...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
zziplib: improper fix for CVE-2018-6869 and CVE-2018-6484↗2018-02-15
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Bugzilla
zziplib: improper fix for CVE-2018-6869 and CVE-2018-6484 [fedora-all]↗2018-02-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6869 zziplib: uncontrolled memory allocation in __zzip_parse_root_directory in zzip/zip.c↗2018-02-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6869 zziplib: uncontrolled memory allocation in __zzip_parse_root_directory in zzip/zip.c [fedora-all]↗2018-02-09
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