vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6298-1 (CVE-2020-18442): ZZIPlib vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 18, 2021
Added
Aug 18, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file".

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libzzip-0-13ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libzzip-devubuntu-pro-upgrade-zziplib-binubuntu-upgrade-libzzip-0-13ubuntu-upgrade-libzzip-devubuntu-upgrade-zziplib-bin
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