Off-by-one error in zsh - CVE-2016-10714

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10862

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10714

CWE-ID: CWE-193

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an off-by-one error. A local attacker can use undersized buffers for PATH_MAX characters and cause the service to crash.

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Update to version 5.3.

zsh - update to 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
zsh-debuginfo - update to 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
zsh-debugsource - update to 4.3.6-67.9.8.1

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh/files/zsh/5.3/zsh-5.3.tar.gz/download

• Denial of service in SourceForge zsh
• SUSE Linux update for zsh
• OpenSUSE Linux update for zsh
• SUSE update for zsh