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Red Hat: CVE-2018-13259: Moderate: zsh security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2017)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-13259: Moderate: zsh security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2017)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a substring of the intended one.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • CVE-2018-13259
  • RHSA-2019:2017

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