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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-17828: Security patch for zziplib (ALAS-2020-1551)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-17828: Security patch for zziplib (ALAS-2020-1551)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/01/2018
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zziplib-utils

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