SB2019032104 - Denial of service in Info-ZIP UnZip
Published: March 21, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019032104
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9844)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the zi_short() function in zipinfo.c when processing a large compression method value in the central directory file header. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted array to the application and trigger denial of service (DoS) condition.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.