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: 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-2014-10072
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.

Affected software

zsh
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux
zsh
zsh-debuginfo
zsh-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2014-10072

Update to version 5.0.6.

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

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