Buffer overflow in UnZip - CVE-2018-1000031
Published: February 10, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37549
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000031
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Info-Zip UnZip version 6.10c22 that allows an attacker to perform a denial of service or to possibly achieve code execution.
Affected software
UnZip
Fedora
unzip
Fedora
unzip
How to mitigate CVE-2018-1000031
Install update from vendor's website.
unzip - update to 6.0-37.fc27