Memory corruption in ZZIPlib - CVE-2018-6542
Published: April 5, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11559
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6542
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the zzip_disk_findfirst function of zzip/mmapped.c due to bus error when handling a disk64_trailer seek value caused by loading of a misaligned address. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the zzip_disk_findfirst function of zzip/mmapped.c due to bus error when handling a disk64_trailer seek value caused by loading of a misaligned address. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Affected software
ZZIPlib
Arch Linux
openSUSE Leap
Arch Linux
openSUSE Leap
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6542
Update to version 0.13.68.