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)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-5978
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1422517
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-15 12:51 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-15 12:55:07 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2017-02-15 12:51:52 UTC 
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.

External References:

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 12:54:03 UTC 
Created zziplib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1422517]
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