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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-7727): ZZIPlib vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-7727): ZZIPlib vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/06/2018
Created
08/18/2023
Added
08/18/2023
Modified
08/18/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib 0.13.68. There is a memory leak triggered in the function zzip_mem_disk_new in memdisk.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzzip-0-13
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzzip-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-zziplib-bin

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