Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU33051

Double Free in libzip - CVE-2017-12858

Published: August 23, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU33051

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12858

CWE-ID: CWE-415

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: NiH

Affected software:
libzip

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Double free vulnerability in the _zip_dirent_read function in zip_dirent.c in libzip allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

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