CVE-2018-16548 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib through 0.13.69. There is a memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c which will lead to a denial of service attack.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00065.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00066.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2196 https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/58 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00029.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5