Buffer overflow in zsh - CVE-2014-10072

 

Buffer overflow in zsh - CVE-2014-10072

Published: March 7, 2018 / Updated: March 20, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10874
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-10072
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: SourceForge
Affected software:
zsh

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The weakness exists in the utils.c source code file due to buffer overflow. A local attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

How to mitigate CVE-2014-10072

Update to version 5.0.6.

Sources