Bug 1626200 (CVE-2018-16548)

Summary: CVE-2018-16548 zziplib: Memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1626201, 1626202, 1626635    
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 17:45:54 UTC
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 could lead to a denial of service attack.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/58

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 17:46:18 UTC
Created zziplib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1626201]

Comment 4 Scott Gayou 2018-09-07 18:35:16 UTC
Appears to have a very low impact. Easy to reproduce.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:26:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2196 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2196

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 13:19:20 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16548