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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18205: Moderate: zsh security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:3073)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18205: Moderate: zsh security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:3073)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/31/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

In builtin.c in zsh before 5.4, when sh compatibility mode is used, there is a NULL pointer dereference during processing of the cd command with no argument if HOME is not set.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-zsh
  • redhat-upgrade-zsh-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-zsh-html

References

  • CVE-2017-18205
  • RHSA-2018:3073

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