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Ubuntu: USN-3320-1 (CVE-2017-5980): zziplib vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Mar 1, 2017

Added

Jun 16, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

The zzip_mem_entry_new function in memdisk.c in zziplib 0.13.62 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libzzip-0-13

References

CVE-2017-5980
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-5980
CWE-476
DEBIAN-DLA-994-1
DEBIAN-DSA-3878
EUVD-EUVD-2017-15049
NVD-CVE-2017-5980
UBUNTU-USN-3320-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-15049

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