Bug 1422513 – CVE-2017-5978 zziplib: out of bounds read in zzip_mem_entry_new (memdisk.c)

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Bug 1422513 - (CVE-2017-5978) CVE-2017-5978 zziplib: out of bounds read in zzip_mem_entry_new (memdisk.c)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5978 zziplib: out of bounds read in zzip_mem_entry_new (memdisk.c)

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-5978

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1422517
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Reported:	2017-02-15 07:51 EST by Martin Prpič
Modified:	2017-02-15 07:57 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-02-15 07:55:07 EST
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Description Martin Prpič 2017-02-15 07:51:52 EST

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in zziplib, a lightweight library for extracting data from ZIP files. An application using zziplib to process could crash when processing a malformed ZIP archive.

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http://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-out-of-bounds-read-in-zzip_mem_entry_new-memdisk-c/

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2017-02-15 07:54:03 EST

Created zziplib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1422517]

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