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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-1071: Vulnerability in Zsh Shell

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-1071: Vulnerability in Zsh Shell

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/09/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/17/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-shell-zsh-5-6-2-11-4-4-0-1-3-0

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