Bug 1484514 (CVE-2017-12858) - CVE-2017-12858 libzip: Double free in _zip_dirent_read function in zip_dirent.c
Summary: CVE-2017-12858 libzip: Double free in _zip_dirent_read function in zip_dirent.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12858
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1484515 1484516
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-23 18:55 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2020-02-28 20:43 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libzip 1.3.0
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:22:01 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-08-23 18:55:47 UTC 
Double free vulnerability in the _zip_dirent_read function in
zip_dirent.c in libzip allows attackers to have unspecified impact via
unknown vectors.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/commit/2217022b7d1142738656d891e00b3d2d9179b796
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-08-23 18:56:36 UTC 
Created libzip tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1484515]


Created mingw-libzip tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1484516]
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2020-02-28 20:43:20 UTC 
The affected code was introduced via this commit in libzip version 1.2.0:

https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/commit/796c5968ad679220db3fb65ec6f48c66e554e5d5

The commit fixing the issue that is linked from comment 0 was applied in libzip version 1.3.0.
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