Out-of-bounds read in AdvanceCOMP - CVE-2018-1056
Published: July 27, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36814
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1056
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Andrea Mazzoleni
Affected software:
AdvanceCOMP
AdvanceCOMP
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-1056
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889270
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1056
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00016.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00004.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/advancemame/bugs/259/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3570-1/